Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easily flowing track incorporated his genius on the keyboards and his synthesized voice. To illuminate the backup vocals, a factor many other artists ignore. Hancock relies upon the Four Waters. The Four Waters isn't the name of a quartet, but rather a way to describe the vocal ebb and flow of brothers Oren and Luther Waters and their wives Julia and Maxine. The stunning vitality of their voices sounds electrifying behind that of Hancock...
...many of the songwriters Masiell uses struggled along with him during his early years. Or maybe musical standards were sacrificed for thematic ones. Whatever the reason, we don't get Jacques Brel--well . . . only twice, and these are the two best numbers--but rather Leslie Bricusse, and Kander and Ebb. It's fine that we're not at The Palace, but a few more palatial songs would have improved the quality of the performance...
...European business to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and stock in the French company. Since then, alarmist charges have regularly bobbed up in Europe's press. "The American multinationals are deserting," warns a French economic weekly. "U.S. business is at ebb tide," declares a Belgian magazine...
...Oslo this month to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, had particularly good reasons to be concerned about the stalemate. The relationship between Egypt and its chief bankroller Saudi Arabia, which lies at the heart of Washington's hopes for Middle East stability, has reached its lowest ebb since the mid-1960s, when Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Faisal backed opposing sides in the Yemeni civil war. TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who knows both countries well, offers some insights into the cooling friendship...
What was far more important than the ebb and flow of people in the room, at least to this observer, was the fact that no one in the Faculty challenged Professor Rivers' (and her committee's) conclusions about the need for improvement, or, for that matter, the means for implementing improvement. None of the notorious anti-teaching people stood up to protest the misguided liberalism of the report, the needless expense of the teaching center it proposes, the impossibility of adhering to its recommendation that teaching be a major criterion for tenure...