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MICHAEL BOLTON: TIME, LOVE & TENDERNESS (Columbia). In an age of drum machines and synthesizers, Bolton relies on his remarkable voice to pack more soul into a love song than anyone else...
...fiery images of death have become part of their normal experience. Many of them, in the words of Drum magazine editor Barney Cohen, are capable of killing at the drop of a match. They have developed a youth culture of alienation and intolerance that may be more destructive, in its sheer scale, than anything seen in Beirut, Belfast or the Gaza Strip...
...another artist's work while giving James no credit whatsoever, that constitutes plagiarism. Anyone who has heard both "Jamie's Crying" by Van Halen and "Wild Thing" by Tone-Loc can easily see that Tone-Loc in the most obvious sense of the word stole the guitar riff and drum beat (Van Halen, understandably, sued...
Warner rightly points out that much early rock & roll (as well, I might add, as blues and jazz) consisted of white musicians' "outright thievery" of black musicians' work. This hardly justifies the same practice in 1991. After all, when Madonna's "Justify My Love" contains the exact same drum beat as James Brown's "Funky Drummer Beat," we witness the exact same phenomenon half a century later...
Still, with a little luck (and an increase in predation by native fish like the freshwater drum), the zebra mussel may yet be brought under control. In fact, some evidence suggests that the mussel population in Lake Erie may have peaked. "There are many ways to kill the zebra mussel," observes Ohio State entomologist Susan Fisher. "The trick is to do it selectively" without wiping out other aquatic life. Fisher has recently found that minute traces of potassium, nontoxic to other organisms, reliably send zebra mussels into fatal shock. Paints laced with potassium, she speculates, might protect underwater structures from...