Word: musicians
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...former disc jockey and lounge musician, this veteran Republican wants the Federal Government downsized and an end to affirmative action, gun control and most federal taxes. Vying for an open seat in this Democratic--though conservative--district, Babin has a chance...
...couple Vivaldi's florid 1725 orchestration with booming, modern instruments and techniques. She described many contemporary instrumentalists as drooling over and fantasizing about playing early pieces by the likes of Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn, yet often restraining themselves from such performances out of (often sanctimonious) respect for "authenticity." A musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian rebellion, Ms. Robison boldly asserts that the ends of creating the most tonally brilliant...
Freedom Rally co-organizer Eric Hipp, a musician and bartender, dismissed the anti-drug gathering: "The 'Just Say No to Drugs'" campaign has done more harm to the country than good, but we're trying to educate people about the uses of the drug...
Nearly God is the latest incarnation of Tricky, the musician and producer wunderkind responsible for Maxinquaye. Maxinquaye was an ambitious and multifacted studio project, drawing on influences ranging from Public Enemy to Issac Hayes. And if Portishead didn't manage to hammer the seductive groove from "Ike's Rap" into your head with their single "Sour Times" (the tune even provided background music for a suitably glum and nubile Liv Tyler's bicycle ride in this summer's Stealing Beauty) then Tricky did with the dark but luscious "Hell Is Around the Corner...
Think of an aging musician stopping on a street corner where a great dance palace once stood, yearning for one more Big Band night, when men in white dinner jackets pressed golden horns to their lips while a woman in a red evening gown with a flower in her hair sang plaintively of love...