Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Side Two opens with "Rant and Rave," a tempo-shifter with fun horn charts and fascinating rhythms; this is followed by "Nineteen Forever," another anthemic track in the "Blaze of Glory" mode and about as interesting. "The Best I Can Do" is a ballad that suffers by comparison with its Side 1 counterpart, largely because it's melody becomes monotonous after the requisite three or four repetitions...
...takes on creativity. No instrument, no invention, can emit an utterly original thought. "I flew 80,000 miles last year," says economist James Smith of the Rand Corp. "You start losing touch with things. My work is research, which at its best is contemplative. If you get into this mode of running around, you don't have time to reflect...
Unfortunately, only half of the actors slip comfortably into the sharp-edged comedy-of-manners mode, while the others flounder midway between some sort of modern naturalistic something-or-other and a very stilted ultra-Victorian melodramatic bluster...
Similarly, his stammer posed a problem: how to get the attention he craved without risking public humiliation. In retrospect, the solution seems obvious: "The papery self-magnification and immortality of printed reproduction -- a mode of self-assertion that leaves the cowardly perpetrator hidden and out of harm's way -- was central to my artistic impulse." Redemption beckoned: "To be in print was to be saved...
...finally, if you're in that kind of hockey maniac mode this weekend and think that four ECAC games at Boston Garden are not enough, there's always the opportunity to watch the best high school teams in the area battle for the state titles...