Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are moments when Morrison can inflect a lyric like Mose Allison, other times when he can spin out a blues line like John Lee Hooker. It's a daft and reckless mix, but Morrison makes it work through sheer force of spirit, what he once called, in a memorable song, the "inarticulate speech of the heart." His rhythms are irresistible, his lyrics like an amalgam of Yeats, Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh...
...show ended with a spunky medley of tunes from the Seventies, and encores included Opportune standards "Zombie Jamboree" and the "Let the Music Play" mix. The crowd never can get enough of "Zombie," performed with flair by the whole group and especially by Casey Gallagher...
...beginnings," but the mood of nostalgia that the songs evoke is somewhat self-conscious. In his own words, the director (and writer, and choreographer), Stuart Ross, is trying hard to avoid any hint of being "goopy or goody-two-shoes." Unfortunately, Ross ends up with an awkward mix of sentiment and goofiness...
...leaders in the outlying republics are an odd mix. Some were dissidents under the old regime; others were minions of Moscow who embraced nationalism only when it was expedient. When the abortive coup in August accelerated the disintegration of the union, sovereignty went from a slogan to a realistic, negotiable objective. Provincial politicians looked in the mirror and saw statesmen and strategists. They started having second thoughts about whether sending local Soviet missile crews packing was a good idea after all. Nuclear storage facilities and launch sites suddenly looked less like imperial outposts and more like valuable assets that might...
...very good mix traditionally over the years, but at the moment we have 14 women and two men. There are a lot of women now in the D.A.'s office. When I first came, there were only six women out of 200 in the D.A.'s office...