Word: mellows
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what actually happens when Updike is sitting across from you? He turns out to be amiable and gallant, as sociable as you could ask the winner of every literary prize short of the Nobel to be. If this is all just a mellow charade, it's certainly one that he has mastered, just as in this brief novel of deep feeling, his 20th, he has mastered the voice of a woman struggling to convey the things that inspired her. "This is my most 'de-masculinized' work," he says. "The willingness to relive a life--I can only imagine two women...
...order two martinis (both $9.50)—a Green Goose (Grey Goose orange, Cointreau, splash of sour apple, sugar rim) and a Chocolate Cherry (Stoli vanilla, Kahlua, amaretto, crème de cocoa, dash of grenadine). We laud the smooth, mellow acidity of the first and are revolted by the cluttered confusion of the second. Vanilla, coffee, almond, chocolate and red fruits jostling for attention? What a garbled gimmick...
...element. Americans, it turns out, aren't conflicted in their attitude toward marijuana. They want it illegal but not really enforced. A TIME/CNN poll last week found that only 34% want pot to be totally legalized (the percentage has almost doubled since 1986). But a vast majority have become mellow about official loopholes: 80% think it's O.K. to dispense pot for medical purposes, and 72% think people caught with it for recreational use should get off with only a fine. That seeming paradox has left a huge opening for pro-pot people to exploit. Eight states allow medical marijuana...
...Dispatch, released a solo album in March 2002. However, Francis has not entirely deserted the hybrid style of Dispatch. As the Kazaa categories and reviews attest, Francis’ album So They Say includes elements of jazz, reggae, rock and folk. The album’s ten songs are mellow in tone, melding the simple smoothness of bass, guitar, percussion and keyboard. Though the album doesn’t inspire riotous movement, Francis in concert does...
Francis opened with “Train Window,” a mellow poetic song on the album, but amplified the guitar solos in performance to build excitement. The audience responded by cheering, dancing and singing along. Francis never cut the torrent of music, never allowing a pause for applause...