Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Educational Background: Providence College; Suffolk Law School...
Educational Background: Simmons College, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Guitarist JK has created a terrific background album: something you can slip on as you sit in traffic, wash dishes, spend time with your significant other. This is smooth jazz with a dab of soul: most of the songs are instrumentals featuring JK's pleasant if unadventurous guitar stylings. But on a handful of tracks Robyn Springer and Gerrell Gaddis sing, and the CD comes to life. When Springer takes the lead on Ain't It Good to Know, the album leaps to the foreground. You pull over in traffic, put down the dishes, cuddle closer and just listen...
...Bonnard unobtrusively reuses the pose of a classical sculpture in rendering her body: the Medici Venus in Large Yellow Nude, 1931, or the Louvre's Hermaphrodite in Siesta, 1900. Quite often you have to look for her; she is on the margin of the painting or sunk in the background, as though half glimpsed, less immediately present to the eye than the blaze of light on a tablecloth. Intimacy, to Bonnard, also meant distance...
With Dave Matthews' "Crash" playing in the background, two Big Al's managers--Lloyd Hendricks and Al Zuccarini--tried to convince me that stripping was just like any other 9 to 5 job, minus the clothes...