Word: folksier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mother on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, but was better known as dizzy racontress on Jack Paar's late-night couch. Les Crane, 74, filled ABC's 11:30 slot against Johnny Carson with an issues show, contentiously thrusting his boom mike into the audience. Four decades later, the folksier Tony Snow, 53, hosted a Fox show as an out-of-town tryout for his job as White House Press Secretary. Jack Narz, 85, hosted the "fixed" game show Dotto; got rehabilitated and hosted Concentration. A "so long, folks" to three top sportscasters: ABC's Wide World of Sports' Jim McKay...
...Paul and Youth one-upped you there too. “Electric Arguments” is a manic hodge-podge of songs. The noise heavy, Black Keys-esque opening track, “Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight,” suddenly jumps to the much folksier “Two Magpies,” reminiscent of McCartney’s solo career. The tone somehow shifts in the last three tracks to feature the more electro-ambient vibe for which The Fireman was originally “known.” Banjo and harmonica make random appearances...
...cover art for Neil Young’s new album “Prairie Wind” evokes the sorely-missed western aesthetic last heard on his 2000 record “Silver and Gold,” but most fully realized on Young’s folksier mid-seventies albums “Comes a Time” and “Harvest...
...show had its low points—almost all of Beck’s folksier, down-tempo songs like “The Golden Age” and “Lonesome Tears” put a damper on the general party vibe. But in each of those cases, he would do something odd and new—like singing a new melody line or having his band do a hoedown clap-stomp behind him—to remind us that this was still a process of experimentation and entertainment...
...Ebbers who gave LDDS its mojo--and a mission to democratize U.S. long-distance service. "He was the most focused leader I'd ever seen," says Murray Waldron, one of Ebbers' original partners. Ebbers used a folksier spin. "The thing that has helped me personally," he told TIME in 1997, "is that I don't understand a lot of what goes on in this industry." What he did perceive was that his networks had to keep getting bigger to achieve economies of scale. By 1995, LDDS counted many of America's largest corporations as customers for its vast voice...