Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...band, which has two featured singers and seven rambunctious musicians besides Don and his compadre David Was, has a distinctive, daffy humor, a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams and a stiff spine about matters of conscience. Once badgered by market-wary Geffen Records, as Don puts it, to "get rid of the black guys," Was (Not Was) hung tough. Same as they did when told by another company there would be no band pictures, "because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they...
That kind of black humor and street sass is carried over into Was songs, which David characterizes as "chocolate-covered razor blades." The Dog CD features a startling but ultimately respectful and impassioned reappraisal of the J.F.K. assassination, 11 MPH, set to a heavy funk beat, as well as a barn- burner reworking of Otis Redding's I Can't Turn You Loose. Both do memory proud. The group is working on a brand-new Was (Not Was) album for release this summer. The music will, naturally, be the same (only different). "It's a come-as-you-aren...
...Duffy and Dan Goodgame as our new White House correspondents, then sent them across town to front-row seats at the swearing- in of the country's 41st President. The White House beat is not always so glamorous. Or so easy. It requires unusual quantities of persistence, curiosity and humor, qualities that both correspondents demonstrated before they reached the Oval Office watch...
...Reagan's long life, humor has never deserted him. And it did not in his last act. At one of the farewells, his staff gave him a bridle, leather gloves and other equipment for his passion of horseback riding. Reagan quipped that when he reached his ranch, he would get the horse. Not to be outdone, two Reagan aides the next morning burst into the Oval Office dressed in a horse costume, the new gear in place. Reagan took one look, laughed heartily and, without missing a beat, turned to his mischievous chief of staff, Kenneth Duberstein, and hauled...
COVER: Barbara Bush brings candor, humor and a down- to- earth style to America' s most exclusive address...