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...death dance was a fusion of grief, despair and mortal accusation...
Faced with possible erosion of their own political bases, some city politicians have begun to shift their own stances. One possibility is a fusion of current powerholders--CCA members and Independents alike--against the new voters in the city. The best example may be Vellucci. Once a traditional ethnic neighborhood politician, Vellucci has slowly shifted toward the CCA on most substantive issues, voting against condo conversion and for rent control. And on the CCA's part, Sullivan may be doing more than any of his colleagues to expand the organization beyond its Brattle St. roots and elitist reputation. His last...
...private sector has a close fusion between banking and industry. Banks are not limited to local geographical areas and have accumulated substantial capital used in large part to finance industry, enabling them to acquire significant industrial holdings. German industrial companies are thus less dependent on equity markets for capital, and banks and companies work together to rationalize where desirable and salvage when necessary. In key sectors like chemical, ectro-technical, and automotive industries, the interplay between capital concentration in large giants with pressure for innovation and modern equipment to compete on world markets has proved highly effective...
...basic assumption of a very fine and sometimes even exciting album by the Kuumba Singers called I'm Gonna Sing. It allows them to sing, without contradiction, exalting jubliees followed by blues that scrape notes out of this lower intestine called life. And sometimes, it allows them a fusion of the two, songs that get you high and low at the same time. It happens a couple of times on this album, and it's quite an impressive effect...
...best tracks on the album are by an ensemble called The Brothers, a subgroup of Kuumba tenors and basses. On Side One The Brothers sing a gospel, "One More Day," that achieves the fusion I was talking about, what Tennyson called "pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes...