Word: funked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...astonishment are the orders of the day. In Pennsylvania, Nigel sits in on a college history class, only to find that the topic under discussion is how to cope with two children and a divorce. Adam, for his part, can only listen in bemusement as a woman named Ira Funk whisks him through her architectural folly in Venice, Calif., chuckling, "Those Tudors just could never have dreamed up even one small bit of this." The meeting of John Doe and John Bull is frequently incongruous. " 'What's the matter, Baby,' a nun with a beard and sparkle all over...