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For a player who has spent time ranked in the top 10 in the world and has some heady victories -- 2014 at Doral, when he brassily declared himself a top-five player, 2016 at the Barclays -- Reed's record in majors is spotty.

The entrance of brassily glamorous Christine Colgate (Carley Stenson), who is to be the ill-chosen subject of a bet between the two rivals, came just before the interval.

Brassily blonde with red high heels and a docker's vocab, she also had a propensity for getting her feminine hygiene spray and mouth fresher muddled up at the worst possible opportunity.

It is an expectedly haunting affair before the subtle production on The Unlocking walks brassily into almost power ballad territory.

Eating and imbibing, for instance, imbue "Songs to Joannes"; as already noted, Loy refers to "laughing honey," and "the milk of the Moon." (41) But in her later work, Loy begins to replace discussions of consummation with an emphasis on consumption, a process arguably foreshadowed in poem twenty-nine of "Songs." Here Loy begins with an apostrophe to "Evolution," and then goes on to contemplate the future development of male and female, advising her muse to: Give them some way of braying brassily For caressive calling Or to homophonous hiccoughs Transpose the laugh Let them suppose that tears Are snowdrops or molasses Or anything Than human insufficiencies Begging dorsal vertebrae.

It is packed with some of musical theatre's most thrilling songs, including Cabaret, Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, The Money Song, all brassily accompanied by an edgy, onstage band.

There was a cafe at one end, hot drinks to take the chill away, and at the other a band boomed brassily away from a balcony - almost certainly The Skaters' Waltz and maybe, as well, the big hit of 1909, By The Light Of The Silv'ry Moon.