Word: moodier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even grandmothers on the lam from home for a few days checked out the truck drivers, waved at cute boys, and nudged each other incessantly. After dark they started in on a round of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." As the night drew on they moved to moodier songs, including some of Elvis's. Twenty middle-aged women singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" on a Greyhound bus. Although there were men on the bus, there were only three besides myself. One had been dragged along by his wife--he hunched his shoulders as though he were trying...
...very low tolerance for alcohol. Yet he began to drink heavily as he sat for hours, usually in the afternoon, in that little office he liked so much across East Executive Avenue-sometimes alone, sometimes with the comforting presence of Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. He grew even moodier than usual, even more withdrawn and indecisive. As his schedule grew more and more erratic, General Alexander
...conventional) figuring prominently. In addition, Winwood's experimentation with mellotron and synthesizer is highly successful. The tasteful string arrangement simulated by the mellotron, complements the strong rhythm section quite well, joined by a subtle wah-wah guitar way down in the mix. Wood's sax solo is far moodier than in the past although one cannot help but be immediately reminded of "Glad," when the wah-wah begins. The entire piece, although quite lengthy (11:03) does not drag for a moment because of the constant shifting of melodies and countermelodies among the sax, piano, and synthesizer. This shifting could...