Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After hitting the market in October 1978 as an unassuming, mellow but cool version of punk music, the Police were marketed by A&M side by side with fellow "Catch a new wave"r Joe Jackson. Their first album produced a hit single on FM, "Roxanne". Their second album was a rush job, showing a respectable sense of humor and musical variation. Then, like Blondie, the Police unfortunately broke out of cult status with their third album, obscuring both where they were coming from and where they were going to. Last year's Zenyatta Mondatta was the last...
DIED. Helen Humes, 68, torchy, mellow-voiced jazz singer who, after appearing with Count Basic from 1938 to 1942, went on to a solo career that spanned 40 years; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Humes, a rhythm-and-blues star with her 1945 hit Be Baba Leba, retired in 1967 but staged a comeback six years later, singing in the U.S. and Europe until illness forced her to quit last year...
...women's tour while she plays, two weeks at home in Florida, London or Palm Springs, where they keep apartments. Says she: "He plays the supportive role sometimes; I play it other times. At first it was difficult for my tennis because I was so happy, so mellow and content that I couldn't balance that contentment off the court with the killer instinct on the court. Now I know how to do it and my tennis has never been better...
...each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied up next week or never. Hand-held cameras on dingily lighted sets catch life on the run; overlapping conversations lend Hill Street the texture of a Robert Altman locker room. The tone can explode from mellow to melodrama within a single sequence. This is an urban M*A*S*H, a ferociously intelligent Dallas-and very much its own show...
...lower priority than the scheduled carriers. But as the week progressed, even the reduced number of flights held more capacity than the fewer passengers could fill. The airport crowds vanished, counter service notably improved. Said Traveler Bob Barnett of Santa Monica, Calif.: "The L.A. airport was about as mellow as I've seen it in 15 years...