Word: funked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Funk explained, second line defined, boogie-woogie exalted...
...collective belt, the B-52's are still-a-garbage collecting band scrounging for bits and pieces from assorted rock genres and recycling out a unique sound, in which the only constants is a bobbin beat "Rock Lobster" was only the beginning of a string of songs merging punk, funk, new-wave. Southern boogie, and anything else capable of stirring quiescent feet to motion. Keeping the party going was all this self-proclaimed "tacky little dance band" from Athens. Georgia wanted. And evidently, that's all their fans wanted...
...work is a turn away from the undirected insanity of the first two albums to a sort of directed insanity, governed by David Byrne, the group's new producer and ployrhythm maestro of Talking Heads fame. Byrne seems to have effected a tilt by the band to the funk side of its background. "Mesopotamia" doesn't give up the fun of "The B-52's" and "Wild Planet". It merely is a rechanneling of the 52's focus from outrageous melodies to a soul-influenced rhythm...
RALPH LAUREN. Tom Wolfe once derided Lauren's "Savile Pseud suits," and backpacking types have been known to mutter about the imposed funk of his Western look. But no one has so codified American traditionalism, or mined it quite so profitably, as Ralph Lauren. His Polo (for men) and Ralph Lauren (for women) labels, with their assorted subsidiaries, sidelines and licenses, pulled in more than $700 million last year. His logo of a mallet-wielding polo player has galloped across everything from ties to dresses, saddle blankets to note pads, and is well on the way to giving...
...last resort, officials compromised on a plan for the sale of some of the Fogg's artwork. But before they could implement the plan, Bok decided to cancel the entire project. That final decision, according to one Fogg supporter, was based on "a psychological funk" created by persistent and exaggerated worries over the national economy and past construction failures such as the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which exceeded original cost estimates of $50 million by about $180 million...