Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goin' to spank your funky butt if you don't clean up your act." Now funk means something that is sharp and looks nice or smells good. Funk to me means more what it was originally. We have what we call this second line. More bass drums involved in the rhythm. I'll play the low bass notes with my left hand to give the illusion of a bass drum, and I'll kind of pound the piano to get the feeling that the drums are there. As the rhythms become tense they become more nervous...
...stage are two more clean-cut-men--preppy almost, were it not for their New York intelligentsia slacks and shirts. One, head down, is slinging away on lead guitar, sending up the wall of sound that has enveloped the theatre. The other is furiously pounding out a thunderous drum beat, more than compensating for the band's lack on the bass. All five band members are lurching and jerking crazily...
...enumerate U.S. diplomatic successes, Reagan invariably mentions the stream of visiting heads of government and state to whom he has played gracious host. Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands was the latest. Reagan welcomed her last week at a White House ceremony featuring a review of a new fife-and-drum corps dressed in white wigs and red coats...
...carpeted floor of her mansion into the bedroom where they will fiddle as Beirut burns. There is no suspense, no tension in this film only the sustained drone of suppressed angst. Circle of Deceit lacks the mythic color and intensity of Schlondorff's best-known film The Tin Drum. Where the bizarre fantasy of The Tin Drum terrifies and disgusts, the efficient realism of Circle of Deceit fades into ennui. Both movies bear Schlondorff's unmistakable brass-knuckle touch in the scenes of gore and brutishly cold sex, which he portrays with neither relish nor repugnance. His films...
Belittled and beleaguered Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, whom some of the owners would like to drum out of the job, says that three-quarters of the teams are reporting increased ticket sales, and there is no cause to doubt it. Even when it isn't, a baseball game seems a bargain-a bargain for the heart...