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...governing performance. His music has enough rock echo to catch the ear of anyone fleeing rap or dance synth on the radio, but it's not aggressive or demanding. It certainly isn't haunting -- you'll have to search far afield from Brooks before you glimpse the ghost of Hank Williams -- but it is insinuating. Even when it's tackling a fairly serious subject like domestic violence, as in The Thunder Rolls, it sounds . . . well, nice. Maybe not entirely appropriate, but it sure goes down smooth...
According to Eliot superintendent Hank L. Slonina, the heightened consciousness of drinking water quality seems to be due to student preferences rather than to any recent change in the tap water...
...Princeton, viewers couldn't even see the ball. Later came technical advances like the portable camera and the instant replay, and visionaries like ABC's Roone Arledge, who discovered that the thrill of victory could be the stuff of great drama. The program is packed with memorable highlights (Hank Aaron's 715th homer; Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10 at the 1976 Olympics), but it doesn't ignore the lowlights, from the rise of trash sports to NBC's nutty 1980 experiment with an announcerless football game...
...three children of a middle-class family in Roosevelt, N.Y. He started getting deep into music while dejaying at Adelphi University, where he also drew a comic strip for the campus paper and casually considered a career like his father's, as a graphic designer. He met producer Hank Shocklee and Flavor Flav (then William Drayton) at the campus radio station, and graphics soon got subsumed into graphic language and a grandiose beat...
...shares with the idiot a contempt for catering to anyone, a disdain for superficial cool. Morrison, 46, looks like a cross between a puff adder and a pub keeper, and will never seem beguiling in a video. As he sings about his boyhood, weaving references to Sidney Bechet and Hank Williams into a tune that draws on the hymn Just a Closer Walk with Thee, it's obvious he is only trying to keep a clear through-line to living memory...