Word: downbeater
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...it’s a satisfying one. This eighth album in her 37-year career is marked by a darker, more sober tone than many past offerings, most strongly resembling 2003’s “World Without Tears.” The album’s generally downbeat vibe is reportedly inspired by both her mother’s death and the turbulent end of a love affair, and both get examined in myriad ways. In the song “Mama You Sweet,” she introduces the grief caused by the loss of her mother...
...produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, a subsidiary of Time Warner, which also owns TIME.) Through last weekend, the Oscar-nominated Letters had grossed just under $40 million, earning it the top spot during the Japanese cinema industry's all-important New Year holiday season. Not bad for a downbeat movie that chronicles one of Japan's bitterest defeats - one that has rarely been the subject of a Japanese film...
...early eulogizers have limned Brown?s contribution to rock (in his shift from the 2-4 upbeat to the 1-3 downbeat), to rap (his riffs sampled in maybe a thousand songs), to dance (his moves influencing Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and countless club hoppers and frat boys), to racial consciousness in the '60s (his anthemic ?Say It Loud, I?m Black and I?m Proud?). Others will itemize Brown?s rap sheet and jail time - for larceny as a teenager, then the two police chases (unlike O.J.?s, J.B.?s were naturally high-speed) and the assault complaints lodged...
...only his pitching prowess that has earned his beloved status: While most Japanese players show all the flair of dour salarymen, Matsuzaka - with his spiky, sometimes dyed hair and cool self-confidence - more closely resembles the dropout hipsters who populated downbeat Tokyo at the turn of the millennium. But his 95-mph fastball and old-school work ethic and competitiveness have earned him the loyalty of traditional fans...
...Paulson did his best to downplay expectations from the grandly named "Strategic Economic Dialogue" his delegation will conduct with the Chinese. There would be no big announcement after the two days of talks, Paulson told one interviewer, stressing that this was the start of a "long-term dialogue." His downbeat spin is hardly surprising: Beijing has been fending off U.S. demands for years on the issue of currency exchange rates, and also intellectual property rights (meaning pirated movies and brand-name goods). In 1996 this correspondent was told by a White House economist who had just returned from talks with...