Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rather than depart too much from his established persona or strain too hard to maintain his position at the forefront of the electronica vanguard, Beck holds back like a worried date, making minimal headway in order to wreak minimal havoc. No hard core fans will be distressed by the modest, competent roots rock that dominates Mutations, but it won't be winning any Grammy's this year...
...sizable wake of Odelay, electronic bleeps and samples became downright universal in pre-millennial pop music, from groove laden trip-hop to the latest Natalie Imbruglia pop confection. What could Beck do to follow up his inspired, trendsetting hodgepodge? Judging from his modest Mutations, he slacked off, mellowed out and indulged himself rather than delivering another jolt of noise for the twenty-first century. The album is awfully pleasant, even affecting, with the rich twang of slideguitars, the whine of a harmonica and theoccasional exotic instrument imported to shakethings up a little. Beck is nearly as playful asever...
Strong reports that 50 to 90 percent of "chronic self-injurers" reported being sexually abused as children. The Dateline NBC report stuck with a modest 50 percent. Strong fails to address the other 10 to 50 percent of self-mutilators...
...organization, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, was admitted to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, one of Washington's most liberal legislative coalitions. It was 11 years more before the group took a consensus position on anything involving gay rights. In 1994 it backed a modest change in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation while permitting an exemption for churches. Two years later that amendment was defeated in the Senate by just a single vote...
...more and more girls are turning to an injectable form of birth control known as Depo-Provera. A hormone-based drug that works principally by blocking ovulation, it is the contraceptive of choice for 8% of white teens seeking birth control and 19% of blacks. This is a relatively modest demand compared to that for birth-control pills, but it's a stampede for a drug that wasn't even available in the U.S. until...