Word: ax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good sense of when to play dirty and when to play clean, a sense of controlled mistake that this group of mostly Brits definitely needs. Also, he has a nice habit of walking over the grand piano to get to the other side of the stage. Sonni gives the ax men their mobility, inciting bassist John Illsey to dance and Knopfler to smile, while slipping in some pretty nice guitar licks himself...
...effort was jinxed at the outset because of her choice of Narada Michael Walden as producer. Walden (who worked with Jeff Beck and helped turn the legendary ax man on to the panacea of disco) here has so little faith in Franklin's raw talents that he keeps drowning her vocals in a sea of special effects. The tracks on Who's Zoomin' skitter back and forth between different styles, from pop to soulful sassiness to coolly hip. The emphasis is always on Walden's pyrotechnical studio tricks...
...Fellow name of Files lived off in here," Underwood was saying. "He ran a whiskey still until the revenuers got him, and he pawned the dog off. Back in those days everyone carried an ax." Underwood then began to wonder aloud what axes had to do with Files and the whiskey still and the dog. "Sometimes I get started on this tale, and it drifts off on me," he said, picking up the trail of the story again. "Anyway, Troop was ten years old, and I bought him from Files' wife for $75. That...
Wall Streeters were not surprised by AT&T's ax swinging. Times have not been good for the restructured firm. The company's once captive markets have become competitive, and its share of business has been dwindling. Its slice of new consumer telephone sales, once 80%, is now down to 50%, and the company has closed its telephone-making plant in Indianapolis. Revenues from telephone rentals are shrinking fast too, as more and more phone users buy their own phones. Such competitors as GTE and Northern Telecom have stolen about half of the $12.5 billion a year in business that...
...anthropologists bother to do fieldwork at all? Nigel Barley, an anthropologist and African specialist at London's Museum of Mankind, ponders the question in this witty memoir of his hapless adventures. Some go to grind an ax or two, as students of Margaret Mead now know. But Barley believes that most anthropologists pursue fieldwork for its cheery reminiscences and lifelong opportunities to one-up colleagues who have never traveled. Experience abroad, he says, confers a "valuable aura of eccentricity upon the really rather dull denizens of anthropology departments...