Word: daydreamer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college-applicant's daydream? An ill-timed practical joke? An exercise in deja vu? No, actually it's a true story, brought to you by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the College Board. On Sunday October 22, (a testing day for observant Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses) the test originally given Sunday April 2 was repeated in its entirety. Approximately 100 of the 2500 to 3000 students taking the test (between three and four percent) were seeing the three-hour test for the second time...
...efforts, Emotions (1991) and Music Box (1993), while huge sellers, seemed strained and mechanical, sort of like playing an Aretha Franklin record through the speakers of a Macintosh computer. "I went into this phase of recording, recording, recording and doing it really fast," Carey concedes. On her forthcoming CD, Daydream, which will arrive in stores the first week of October, Carey says she has been more faithful to her muse: "This time I had more time and I focused more on what I wanted...
...shows. Daydream is a refreshingly understated piece of work and her best album yet. Her vocals are strong and serenely passionate. Her lyrics (she co-writes nearly all her songs) are smarter, and her rhymes more artful and flowing: "As we drifted to another place in time/ And the feeling was so heady and sublime." The music too has improved. Gone are the crashing synthesizer sounds and the overwhelming orchestrations. The songs on Daydream are restrained, such as the cool, blissfully nostalgic Underneath the Stars and the subdued, romantic Melt Away. And on the CD's final track, the stark...
...group's soul and wit, its Elvis and its Groucho. But unlike Elvis, the early Beatles had the quick, larky humor of kids assured enough to make fun of themselves and everyone else. And unlike the Marx Brothers, these were no anarchists -- they were many a mother's daydream of the pop star her daughter might bring home...
...daydream ends, and a bitter taste enters the mouth...