Word: doo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expectation that a relatively simple investment will yield a steady income for years to come. Accordingly, each holiday season brings yet another wave of musical tidings from performers hoping to cash in. And they come in every conceivable style, from caroling choirs and symphonic concerts to specialties like Doo Wop Christmas and Alligator Stomp, Vol. 4: Cajun Christmas...
...other stand, which served notice that Yale was in deep doo-doo (as one Yale grad might put it) was earlier in the same quarter...
...distinguishing between the useful and the awful. Where the fourth edition labels slang as such, the fifth prefers "nonformal," an ambiguous term at best. The innocent "flaky" is nonformal -- but so is the vulgar "screw." The Black English verb "dis" (short for disrespect) is nonformal; so is "deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook" and "slant-eye" as nonformal and altogether...
Although both rely on improvisation and solos, jazz and rap have never found much common ground. The great jazz trumpeter MILES DAVIS was in a recording studio trying to remedy this at the time he died last September. But the unfinished album, Doo-Bop, recorded with the rapper EASY MO BEE, merely skims the rich possibilities of a synthesis. Mo Bee and Davis perform together on just three of the record's nine cuts. Even then, they do not unite. While Mo Bee's rapping is nimble and sharp, and Davis' muted horn hot and restless, the , numbers have...
True to its title, the album contains no guest duets by visiting pop royalty. All the voices -- the doo-wopping backup singers, the chanting imam, the heavenly choir -- are Lennox's. And in seven of the eight videos made of songs in the set, Lennox is seen alone; her only company is her image in the mirror. There's plenty of variety in Lennox's music (long-lined ballads, driving Euro-pop, plaints in the French style), but the tone is consistently, nicely rueful. The sunniest tune, with a piano chirping in a Caribbean accent, is called Walking on Broken...