Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bowie uses his lyrics as extensions of his arrangement schemes, offering fragments of dialogue and images to complement his music. "Up The Hill Backwards," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Because You're Young" are abstruse in specific meaning, but convey a definite mood of danger and intrigue. The weakest track, "Fashion," is also the easiest to understand, a meditation on disco culture of little import...
...sorry state of the society that will not buy his bland music. The concentration of the camera and the script on Simon would be fine if he portrayed an interesting or at least three-dimensional character, but Jonah Levin is neither, and his colorless professional and domestic problems complement the monotonous musical score to make One-Trick Pony a very boring way to spend two hours...
...Boeing, the largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, has weighed in with statistics showing that two-member crews on planes like its own 737 or McDonnell Douglas' DC-9 have better safety records than the standard three-person complement flying most other planes. One reason, says Boeing: the extraneous third person can sometimes distract the other two at critical moments...
...insisting that "right now we are only in the business of getting a man elected." Two weeks ago, in an interview with The New York Times, Edwin Meese, chief of staff of the Reagan campaign, mentioned the IOP's study as one of several outside research projects that will complement the campaign's own planning. Rosenker says that a three man group is heading a small staff of transition planners within the campaign, but he refused to name any of these staffers. "We would be inundated with hundreds and hundreds of job applications; we don't need that right...
About three years ago, the members of Peking's foreign trade establishment decided that aside from the usual complement of light handicraft, textiles and the like, they should be pushing Chinese technology. And among the products shipped down to the fair for display were several brands of Shanghai-produced batteries...