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...suspect. They live in neighborhoods where they might be the only people of color on the block. This sense of insecurity, of not quite being at home, coupled with the unwillingness of an agent of the state to explain why he's on your property, might lead even the mellowest among us to see shadowy intentions in what probably was just sloppy police work. And it might lead an otherwise even-tempered President to call the police out in exactly those terms. (Read TIME's 1994 review of Gates' book Colored People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Henry Louis Gates Affair: When Race Matters | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...this comparison?EM: Yeah, I’d say there’s some truth to that. I really like their stuff, and I think certain songs have some similarities but I think we’re coming from a different place. They have a more narrow spectrum: their mellowest song and their danciest song aren’t that far away from each other. It might seem like a criticism but I don’t really see it that way. We’re pretty open to doing whatever kind of songs, hip hop and even classical stuff...

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Evan Mast from Ratatat | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...Mellowest Tones. Federal authorities think the victims may include Eli Zeccardi, 67, underboss of the Genovese clan, and his top associate, Dominick Dequatro, 55; both have disappeared in the past month. Officials say the disappearances may be connected with the rise in the family of Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, 49. An ex-boxer, Gigante won lasting notoriety as the gunman who unsuccessfully tried to liquidate Mafia "Prime Minister" Frank Costello in 1957. The investigators doubt that Gigante is acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mixing Business and Pleasure | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...family received demands for payment of $200,000-never made-he was kidnaped by non-Mafia freelancers, and may have died of a heart attack; he suffered from a heart ailment. Whatever the case, the violence has stirred anxieties in Mafia breasts that even Sinatra's mellowest tones could hardly soothe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mixing Business and Pleasure | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...best of the three is "Wharf Rat," which almost unquestionably reflects the musical state of mind that brought forth American-Beauty. A reflection on a chance encounter during a walk through a city's docks. "Wharf Rat" is the Dead at their mellowest...

Author: By Roger L. Smith, | Title: The Grateful Dead | 11/18/1971 | See Source »

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