Word: briefness
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Musically, the Goo Dolls are your run-of-the-mill mainstream alternative band. Nothing extraordinary is done here in the way of instrumentation, and most songs are similar in their construction and execution--verse, verse, bridge, verse. "Extra Pale" is a brief flash of distinction in the obscurity created by so many homophonic songs with its abrupt pauses and nicely-incorporated backup vocals. Those who might be tired of "Iris" will welcome its mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy...
...brief moment in the '70s, Joni Mitchell produced a series of remarkable album self-portraits. They spoke with serious and playful poetry about her various loves, her life as a celebrity and her thoughts on society in general. With a palette of jazz-inflected colors and wide, icy lyrics, Mitchell wrote incisive melodies and illuminated phrases that stuck in the mind like rare sunshine. The albums of this period, like Court and Spark or The Hissing of Summer Lawns, were exquisitely composed for midnight listening sessions with intimate friends. Reveling in Joni's sexy jazz piano chords and perfect words...
...under investigation for duplicating or otherwise tampering with the tapes, something she's testified she has not done. (If that were found to be untrue, she could face perjury charges.) But she would pose a grave danger to Starr if it were proved he had encouraged her to brief the Jones team, something both Starr's allies and Tripp's lawyers deny. His prosecutors were furious, says a source close to Tripp, when they learned of her meeting with the Jones lawyers several hours after the Lewinsky sting...
Sources in the Jones camp have told TIME they always suspected that Starr gave Tripp the go-ahead to brief them, because they believe she was too unnerved by Starr's interrogation to take such a step on her own. But they have no evidence to support their belief...
Both series are targeted at time-challenged boomers, and both have similar formats, with short chapters, brief paragraphs, lots of sidebars--and few difficult words. "Every time we threw some fancy terminology in there," says Ed McCarthy, co-author of Wine for Dummies, Red Wine for Dummies and White Wine for Dummies, "our editors made us take...