Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the casual listener who knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...
...Stamboltsyan, a member of the Armenian supreme soviet who spent six months in confinement: "Relations are still tense between us, but we talk a lot." Expressions of hatred toward Azerbaijan are the rule. "They had an earthquake in Baku recently," recounts an Armenian girl. "Too bad it didn't hit 20 on the Richter scale and wipe them...
...made a seminal discovery. He looked for gold in the "windows" of a geological feature known as the Carlin Trend. Windows occur where obscuring layers of rock, displaced by an uplift, have eroded to expose the rock below. When Livermore cut into a window on the Carlin Trend, he hit what nongeologists took to calling invisible gold...
Three months later, pro-lifers must be wondering what hit them. Abortion- rights groups, perhaps with their fingers crossed, had promised that the Webster decision would galvanize a silent pro-choice majority. Last week, as pro-choice activists won stunning victories in Florida's legislature and the U.S. Congress, that promise began to be fulfilled. With the political landscape seeming to undergo a seismic shift, many antiabortion politicians have concluded that the only way to maintain their footing is to tiptoe away from their former positions...
...enigmatic center of Sea of Love (sensible working mom or psycho killer?) and as the unblinking ultra-bitch in Johnny Handsome, this fine, ferocious actress has hit her Hollywood stride...