Word: interplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounded better, tight as all hell and at the same time creatively lyrical. Carter's dazzling clarity, Hancock's chord driven, percussive flair, and Williams' inventive and at the same time remarkably structured use of his drum kits serve as the backbone of the album. The results of their interplay make one wish the three of them would release a piano trio album...
...argument about policies of preference for African-Americans is too simplistic. If this interplay of guilt and exaggeration does lead to preferential policies, then why is that so-called "affirmative action" limited to only a small percentage of the African-American population? Is Steele maintaining that only white elites suffer from this latent guilt and only African-American are masters of over-emphasis for political and economic gains? If this political culture truly exists and is as easy to exploit as he claimed, why haven't the masses of African-Americans struggling to survive mobilized to take advantage of this...
...tells the story with a twinkle, that fear has hovered over him for years. In his mind he is a poetic playwright, but the world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood Knot put a black actor alongside a white one on the same Johannesburg stage -- and the punishments they brought, including revocation of his passport and virtual house arrest...
Needless to say, a big, strong detective comes on the scene to protect our heroine. The interplay--the flirting, fucking, and fighting--between Emma and Detective John Hallstrom (Aidan "Ole Blue Eyes" Quinn) is so hackneyed that you begin to feel embarrassed for the actors. The embarrassment grows during the required epiphanal sex scene. Against a background of Muzak, we are treated to close-ups of the big blue vein in the side of Madeleine Stowe's boob and the long hair on Aidan Quinn's chest. Director Apted has no sense of tasteful nudity. Or relevant nudity, for that...
...Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte's melodic sense must have been the dominant one in deciding what Autoclave tunes would sound like. The multi-layered Autoclave textures, the interplay produced by having 3 (or 4?) songwriters with different tastes, are just as missing from Slant 6 as they are from Helium and Rastro! But the riffs on Soda Pop Rip Off(especially in the second-to-last number, the sparkling "Blue Angel") could pass of Autoclave riffs, and have...