Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has never been anything polite about Reed's music, then or now; not a laid-back note or a smug lie. Reed has seen his poetry published in the Paris Review and Fusion, and both stubborn bards and diehard rock 'n' rollers will recognize-maybe even sympathize with-the sentiments expressed in the chorus of a new Reed tune...
...splitting-of such radioactive materials as uranium and plutonium, H-bombs work by fusing isotopes of the simplest and lightest element, hydrogen, into slightly heavier atoms of helium, although they still require a small fission "trigger" to reach the sunlike temperatures (tens of millions of degrees) required for fusion...
...writ large, it is a definitive summation of his style, strengths and weaknesses. Technically, Fosse tends to favor the pelvic thrust, the rapidly undulating behind, the body shimmy, the quick, alternating shoulder dip, the swiveling head and the massed chorus strut complete with very high kicks. Out of the fusion of these movements, Fosse has won his crown as the choreographer-king of sensuality...
Cobham has played with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, a post-"Bitches' Brew" group that helped to influence the developing jazz-rock fusion of the early '70s. He has also played with Stanley Clarke on Clarke's "School Days," a very funky album in which Cobham enjoys setting forth basic funky rhythms and varying them, complicating them, creating a funk-avant-garde feel. Essentially, that is what Cobham plays; funk-avant-grade, jazz-rock. His album titles speak for themselves: "Funky Thide of Things," "Shabazz," "Spectrum...
...functions now performed by other agencies throughout the federal bureaucracy. It has a management responsibility, including the huge Bonneville dam project, a weapons research-and-development complex stemming from the old Atomic Energy Commission, and a huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably an Energy Information Administration, which will develop reliable statistics about oil and gas output and reserves, and an Economic Regulatory Administration, which will audit and police the energy companies more closely...