Word: effortlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between the jingle-jangle melodies and crunchy feedback within songs like "Seems So" is terrific. "We'll Come to Be," one of the standout tracks on the album, will have your head bopping in the proper Liverpudlian fashion. Head Apple Robert Schneider makes writing classic '60s pop songs sound effortless--he writes songs that, like the Beatles' best, transcend their short length and pull you into the music. Many of these tracks will stay in your head, leaving you humming the chorus on your way to class, annoying passers-by. So what's the problem? The problem is that there...
Next up was "Youthful Bliss," a McBride original from his recent album as leader, Number Two Express. McBride took great liberties with his solo section, quadruple-timing figures in a way that seemed impossible on such a cumber-some instrument. Throughout it all, the bassist made it look effortless, never belying the technical hurdles he had to overcome in order to play such difficult intervals in such awkward positions. McBride was very much in a groove--toward the end of his solo, Redman interjected with a few notes, as if to indicate it was his turn. Through...
...calls on the performers to be actors as well as dancers. "Limning Twilight," in contrast to "Accordion To You," is slower and more expressive. The choreography is not as much playful as it is polished and deliberate. Still, the dancers twist and climb over and around each other with effortless fluidity, giving off an impression of weightlessness...
Like the jazz it depicts, "Kansas City" comes across as an effortless delight guided by an underlying discipline. This fine work lives and breathes before our eyes in the hands of master director Robert Altman, who uses the film less as a conventionally plot-driven vehicle than as a slow Sunday ride through whatever catches his fancy. The result is a movie that succeeds on many levels: as a historical snapshot of a vibrant city, as a tragic dual portrait of two women from different walks of life, even just as a scrapbook of moments, riding on jazz rhythms...
...have a chance to put your fingerprints on housing policy in this state," said Pete Wilson. Connerly took the job and began an association with the future Governor that has served both men well. "He was just bright as hell," says Wilson. "He seemed to have an effortless understanding of what it took to succeed in a world where blacks weren't being afforded much opportunity...