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...recent concert tours, looks back across her quarter-century as an alternative country pioneer and finds more than nostalgia. Harris and her nimble band revitalize some of her best oldies--Love Hurts, Boulder to Birmingham--with an assurance that makes them sound fresh. Spyboy has the kind of loose, effortless charm that most musicians don't trust anymore. At 51, Harris has tapped into her own well of inspiration, and what's flowing out is something you don't hear much on records: wisdom...
That was the glad nerve Ruth palpated. When he showed up with his superfluity of power, the apparently effortless capacity to render moot all the niggling fine points of the contest, the game was instantly changed. The bunt, the stolen base, the Baltimore chop were back-burnered for decades. Ruth's brash Yankees went to the 1923 World Series against the New York Giants, the classiest tacticians of their day. The series went to six games, but the Babe poled three into the right-field seats, and the Yankee dynasty had begun. Heywood Broun spoke for millions of delighted fans...
...pointed fingers abundant during Depeche Mode, limits tested by the dense sonic experimentation of This Is My Rifle, emotions wrangled by the sugary-sour pop treat offered up by Blue Wail. The winner of the friendly compe- tition, the extraordinary B-Side, got the crowdon its feet with smart, effortless freestyle rapand a tight groove bound to get anyone withinhearing distance excited...
Birtwell's innovative motion and three-quarters delivery may have caused Walsh and pitching coach Marty Nastasia some worries in the dugout, but the freshman silenced all doubts with a seemingly effortless win in just the second start of his college career...
...cellist, Ma is renowned for effortless technique, a rich tone and a masterly feel for interpretation that allows his performances to breathe with an almost jazzlike spontaneity. "Yo-Yo has an ease of playing that is given to very few. It is a kind of mastery that gives one the greatest possible freedom," says violinist Isaac Stern, a onetime mentor of Ma's. "He is probably the most perfect instrumentalist I have ever seen," says Ax. "I spend hours and hours practicing every day. Yo-Yo can afford to sleep late and have lunch, and he still plays much more...