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shmusic: (SCHMOOZ-ik) n., low-key jazz played in the background of receptions and parties...
...didn't publicize enough," Olney conceded. "There wasn't an article in The Crimson. It might have seemed that we weren't around as much. We were doing more low-key things that were nevertheless important, but weren't the types of things that would be publicized...
...Jamaica to a wider audience, establishing reggae as a genre of global reach and lasting import. Today you can hear their influence in the music of the hip-hop group the Fugees, the ska-rock band Sublime and even the Rolling Stones (Stones guitarist Keith Richards has a low-key Rastafarian drum-and-chant album out called Wingless Angels). Marley's career (he died in 1981) was rightly celebrated several years ago by the spectacular four-CD boxed set Songs of Freedom (Island). Now Tosh, who was murdered in 1987, gets the box treatment in the just released three...
...primary architect of two Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits that became instant touchstones for a Gen X phenomenon quickly dubbed Tibet Chic. Like the new movies, the concerts' first concern was political but they too opened with that signature chanting, and Yauch, a convert, made sure spiritual seekers could find low-key "monastery tents" on the concert grounds...
...book has drawn Kramer into an exchange with an outraged moral conservative in the pages of the New York Times. But for antidivorce activists to make Kramer an icon for modern self-indulgence would be to miss the mark. Beneath the book's air of moral relativism lies a low-key celebration of austerity, even a quiet, almost covert conservatism. The closest thing to a central message is the advice Kramer gives during one of the book's fictional case studies: "The problem is not your choice; the problem is how you live with that choice...