Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...examining the presented works with quizzical glances; in search of stability, I did the same. My chosen spectacle was a scalding, large picture of the sea. Huge splashes of thick blue paint covered the canvas, rearing out in small pinnacles, and returning into piquant troughs. My expression of bewilderment drew the shop owner--a frail foetus by appearance, in fact a middle-aged man--who collected his phlegm with a unappealing gurgle...
...Drew: Well, we're a pretty diverse group. All of us really have different favorites, which is one of the neat things about the band. One of the things that brought us all together was...certainly we came out of the funk movement in the late seventies. We were inspired by the rebellion of the Clash and the Sex Pistols. We used to do a lot of Gang of Four songs and a lot of Joy Division songs. We also did a lot of reggae music. We like the social protest of Bob Marley and the Gladiators and the Mighty...
Interview with keyboardist Dennis Drew...
...Drew: We did this record different than we ever did before. All the music comes first as usual. If I write the music I bring that in, the band learns it and Natalie puts lyrics to it. I never go over to Natalie's house and we don't sit around and write songs together. So usually that's the way it used to work, but this time we tried to make it more of a workshop effort. We got together and we tried to break out of the mold, so we really spent a lot of time rehearsing...
WHEN HE FIRST DREW UP A PROPOSAL TO REFORM Panama's constitution and officially abolish the military, President Guillermo Endara assumed his countrymen would agree that a final break with ousted dictator General Manuel Antonio Noriega's discredited regime was in order. To his surprise, Endara found that Panamanians wanted a break from him. In a referendum, the first national vote since U.S. troops deposed Noriega and installed Endara three years ago, 63.5% of Panamanian voters said no to the package of 58 complicated items in a simple yes or no vote. The vote was tantamount to a rejection...