Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, the point was the music, a peak-velocity transplant ot American rock, with its original blistering spirit not only restored but exalted. There was some concern for the future, however. A Liverpool record-store owner named Brian Epstein thought he might be able to lend a hand there. He signed on as the group's manager in 1961. By the end of the following year. boys got their first record contract and their first producer, George Martin, who remained aboard for the crazy cruise that came to be called Beatlemania. There was one final change of personnel: Drummer...
Kaplan's ability to establish Whitman's relationship with America, the only continuous union in his unmarried life, gives his biography an Emersonian twist. Covering the terrain of Whitman's life in about 400 pages, Kaplan repeatedly and judiciously quotes his subject's poems, prose, letters and diaries to lend his biography not only authenticity but a Whitmanesque spirit that a historical and strictly narrative book would have lacked. Thus, much of Walt Whitman: A Life is interior, approaching Whitman's experience through his own descriptions...
Western banks have been happy to lend to Eastern European countries, which they believe are good risks. Communist governments are presumed to be stable. Moreover, the debtors in socialist nations are not firms but governments, and their repayment record over the past 35 years is unblemished. That helps explain why Yugoslavia has been able to borrow more than $7.5 billion from Western banks and why Rumania owes $4.2 billion to private foreign lenders...
UPON FIRST LISTENING, you might think that side one is just some variations on a repetitive theme. Second listening might lend the same impression. Eventually "Cross-eyed and Painless" (the first single to be released) and "The Great Curve" emerge as the kind of songs Byrne was looking for: a driving variation of funk with lyrics almost as entertaining as those of Parliament-- "The world moves on a woman's hips, the world moves and it swivels and bops." Unfortunately, "Born Under Punches," like "Seen and Not Seen" on side two, is a victim of the risk that Byrne took...
...gloriously feisty moments. When Ben derogatorily remarks that he doesn't "have any idea what the hell turns her on," she apologizes for giving him "more trouble than the groupies do." A few more well-placed retorts might have succeeded in giving Kate enough self-assertiveness to lend her vulnerability its intended poignancy...