Word: funked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favor. No doubt about it: the Jacksons' tour is a real show-business extravaganza, a four-star eye-glazer and ear-bender replete with laser effects, magic tricks, assorted marvelous machines, sundry intermittent detonations, a finale full of fireworks... and, oh yes, a healthy portion of good solid funk. Soul Train meets Star Wars on the outskirts of Las Vegas. A lot of-quite literal-bang for the buck...
...fact that for now the Soviets may not be capable of any other kind of action," sighs one Reagan aide. Not, at least, in the face of Reagan's undiminished distaste for the Soviet Union, which, ingenuously or not, is the Soviets' stated reason for their funk...
...Museum of Modern Art's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler, refuses to mount a Memphis show at MOMA. Says he: "Announcing that it's all deeply philosophical gives the media a peg to hang it on. But it's only a mix of California funk, 1920s Kurt Schwitters [the German Dadaist], and a few things that have been lying around unclaimed." Still, Ben Lloyd, an editor at Metropolitan Home magazine, speaks for many in the design world when he states that "Memphis has made furniture much more politically interesting than before...
...Gabriel. "Excellent Birds" will probably and unfortunately become a hit single. And much of the album utilizes the African polyrhythm and synthesizer effects that made Talking Heads' Remain in Light such an influential album. Nevertheless, this album is not a sellout; nor is it a rehash of the African-funk sound which Brian Eno and David Byrne pioneered in the early...
...that autobiographical funk called Stardust Memories (1980), a fan pleaded with the self-absorbed film director to make funnier movies-"like the old ones." This time Woody Allen generously obliged, in part by junking some of the analysand mannerisms that infected him and his female co-stars over the past few pictures. Danny is the least "Woody Allen" of Allen's screen incarnations. As Tina, Lou's nails-tough mistress with a heart of rhinestone. Mia Farrow is a coarse delight; this is her best work since Rosemary's Baby. Bright as the spangled jacket...