Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell people who are on it from their speech patterns and what they say," she says. "If they smoke a lot, they talk slower. It's just like they're really mellow all the time...
...Warming up a Riff", and "Parker's Mood". Robinson plays so well and so compellingly that we can only imagine the sublime experiences of hearing Parker himself play live. The sax provides a respite from the depressing facts of Parker's life; when Robinson stops playing, we miss its mellow loveliness. The instrument itself becomes a symbol; in its interplay of sound and silence, it makes literal the poignancy of Parker's genius and early death...
Johnson was criticized at times for appearing too mellow and indecisive, acquiring the chiding nickname "No Waves" for his willingness to remain content with the department as long as it appeared to be operating smoothly on the surface...
...zeal to generate discussion about controversial issues, I may have gone too far on occasion. But I'm certainly not the evil conservative that the liberal establishment likes to depict all of its foes as. In real life, I'm a soft-spoken, mellow fellow who smiles and nods a lot. If I am guilty of anything. I would say (to borrow from Shakespeare) that I have loved opinion writing and debate over issues "not wisely, but too well...
...then shrugging them off. For a start, he was a traditional crooner who learned intonation from Crosby and salesmanship from Jolson. Yet there was a hint in his gestures (eyes closed in ecstasy, arms stretched out imploringly) that he was parodying the very idea of crooner; he was a mellow modernist. You could also peg Dino as an anachronism, a Joe E. Lewis saloon-lush type, the party animal in a tux. Or maybe he was the first slacker, elevating sloth to a Zen art. The stupefaction he radiated on his TV show--the Golddiggers dancing around him as wildly...