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...Henry Pleasants, in his ear-opening book "The Great American Popular Singers" (a 1974 work that deserves to be back in print), gets to the heart of Charles? vocal achievement: "Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been a master of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what...
...sixties pop with contemporary beats and rhymes is silly, self-consciously experimental, and ultimately beautiful -the Beta Band in a nut shell. If they and their fellow nod-inducers from across the Atlantic continue to churn out tunes of this caliber, we shall not want for lush, trippy ear candy in the '00s, and so we must be grateful for this miniature British invasion. Cohesive themes? Maxims to live by? Don't scratch your copy of Sgt. Peppers...
...integral part of hip-hop culture. Craze is taking the genre further. People dance to DJs, but "turntablists" like Craze they stand and listen to, they study, they admire as they might a jazz soloist. Craze's sets are meticulously planned and carefully executed. Employing a keen ear, he locates the best grooves on a record; sliding his fingers across the vinyl, he nimbly slows down or speeds up the beat; twiddling a cross-fader (which adjusts the volume), he changes the structure of songs by blending the sounds of two records on two different turntables...
Never had we imagined that the smile could get any bigger. But it did last March, on Oscar night. She accepted her award and the lips parted from ear to ear, from sea to shining sea, even as her memory grew dim. In her now infamous, rambling, exuberant, makes-for-great-television acceptance speech, she unfortunately failed to thank, among others, the real Erin Brockovich, the legal eagle whose fight for justice had inspired the movie that brought the star to the podium. Not even the desperate time signals from orchestra conductor Bill Conti could slow her down...
...crazyweed, woolly locoweed, hairy vetch, lady's thumb, common speedwell, field milkwort, Lyon's turtlehead, ragged robin, calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower, rough-fruited cinquefoil, climbing boneset...