Word: funke
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...country's largest wholesale jewelry mart, and Houston's art deco Alabama Theater has merely exchanged one muse for another. The place is now a bookstore. Pioneer Square in Seattle, with its raffish characters, is proving that preservation and up-market transformation do not necessarily mean the death of funk...
Like Motown was at the time, the Minneapolis Sound (not to be mistaken with alternative rock's Minneapolis Sound of the Replacements and Husker Du, among others) was new and fresh. Powerful bass, a driving funk beat, suggestive lyrics and occasional guitar riffs propelled the Sound to the top with fans and critics both, a rare feat...
...Neal, in another Motown parallel, is a modern-day Marvin Gaye, able to sing powerfully on both funk jams and ballads. And for Jam and Lewis, accustomed to the frail voice of Jackson or the nonexistent voice of Alpert, a real singer completes the framework they've needed to perfect their sound...
...have of becoming the next Olivier? "And I" is more sanguine and delighted to get a job in provincial rep. Thus he begins that patient paddle up life's stream, in the course of which he will come to accept this experience for what it was -- a & youthful funk, to be recouped through laughter, not a great existential turning to be brooded...
...Youthful funk becomes stimulating mischief in the hands of cheeky young British filmmakers. Call their style Disasterpiece Theater...