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Elsewhere Bowie uses ballads ("Teenage Wildfire"), funk ("Fashion"), and pop ("Up the Hill Backwards") to deliver his dejection. But the dominant musical scheme of Scary Monsters is a more accessible, refined edition of Bowie's sound on Heroes--guitar screams and synthesizer whooshes on top and an aggressively precise bass on bottom frame Bowie's vocal trapeze act, which swings from throaty baritone to wide-open tenor with effort but control...
...long minutes afterwards, Colliseum fans sat stunned, unable and unwilling to believe their eyes. Last year provided the supreme indignity: in a hockey civil war replete with variable loyalties and immense sociological implications, the 33rd St. and 8th Ave. Rangers shocked the Islanders and plunged their fans into a funk that did not lift until very, very recently...
...market, which has yet to make a really convincing recovery from the disastrous losses that followed the go-go years of the late 1960s? Wall Streeters had no end of bullish answers, but mostly they boiled down to a growing feeling among investors that the nation's psychological funk has bottomed out and that under the spur of events in Iran and Afghanistan, a sense of direction and purpose is finally beginning to emanate from Washington. Says Howard Stein, chairman of the Dreyfus Fund, a leading mutual fund investment firm: "There is always a psychological lift from a crisis...
...talking history in McLean County, you are talking about a place that has achieved its destiny, and now has time for a backward look. The traveler discovers the pathos of the conquest of the prairie sod, and romance in the development of hybrid corn by the Funk Brothers Seed...
...history of McLean County during this century is mostly a story of dreams richly come true. The seed the Funk brothers developed yields 150 to 160 bushels of corn an acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the seed company is a division of Ciba-Geigy. Land that McNulta bought for $150 an acre now hovers around $4,000 an acre, too much for anyone ever to start out farming there now, but not a bad price for to day's farmer/investor to use as a tax write...