Word: chording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more we monkey with nature, the more we seek assurance that somewhere it is beyond our tinkering. To a world idling in traffic, "Alaska" strikes a primal chord. Our longing expresses itself in mail-order catalogs full of the back-to-nature look and in the popularity of films like Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and A River Runs Through It, viewed by urban audiences sitting elbow-to-elbow in the dark. Most will never know what it is to be dwarfed by an old-growth forest, spy brook trout sipping mayflies or hear a wolf howl...
...environmental nightmares strike a more frightening chord than Chernobyl. It is not merely the radioactive mess left by the 1986 meltdown. Six years later, 19 similar graphite-moderated nuclear time bombs are still ticking away, alarming relics of a badly designed, haplessly run nuclear-power program that none of the independent republics of the former Soviet Union can afford to shut down. The potential killers bring light, heat and power to parts of Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania, where their immediate decommissioning would create unacceptable economic disruption and even civil unrest...
Charles' second front is architecture, and in this field he has won his most popular success. He inherited many of his father's gadfly, curmudgeonly qualities, and when he started railing against the ugliness of London's skyline and new buildings that looked like carbuncles, he struck a chord in the common man. This month he opened his own Institute for Architecture near London's Regent's Park, which will offer courses toward a degree in the field and will serve as a gathering point for conferences...
...original wild man of rock 'n' roll struck a chord with the tiny-bopper set last year with a rambunctious rendition of Itsy Bitsy Spider that appeared on For Our Children, a benefit album for pediatric AIDS victims. Now he's back with Shake It All About, a collection of 12 children's classics all done up in Little Richard's flagrantly flamboyant style. He turns On Top of Spaghetti into a rhythm-and-blues lament, raps his way through If You're Happy and You Know It and performs a funky, fanny-wiggling version of The Hokey Pokey...
...study jazz at a conservatory. He dropped out after a single - semester. By then he was jamming with Art Pepper and Dexter Gordon. When he met up with Coleman at a club in Hollywood, he was primed for takeoff. "The traditional way of improvising in jazz is on the chord structure," he says. "But sometimes I would want to improvise on the inspiration, the feeling rather than the chords. And that's what Ornette was doing...