Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bayoneted to death. Toddlers lay sliced in half, and mothers with babies strapped to their backs sprawled dead on the streets of Kigali. The fighting was hand to hand, intimate and unspeakable, a kind of bloodlust that left those who managed to escape it hollow eyed and mute...
...series mutates into a more tepid apocalyptic soap opera. The narrative coalesces around a few disparate survivors (who have an unexplained immunity to the flu), among them an easygoing Texan (Gary Sinise), a pregnant young woman from Maine (Molly Ringwald), a rock singer (Adam Storke) and an angelic deaf-mute (Rob Lowe). The few people left are mystically drawn into two camps: one led by a messiah- like black woman (Ruby Dee), the other by a satanic "dark man" (a leonine Jamey Sheridan...
...long. On his return from that trip, he stopped in Washington, where he lectured a room packed with members of America's foreign policy establishment. He spoke for 90 minutes without notes and drew a standing ovation for his lucid presentation. On the day that an embolism struck him mute, page proofs for his last book arrived at his office...
Shakur puts forth a lackluster version of the typical "Superfly" character. His Birdie is only slightly menacing and only slightly charismatic. Kyle becomes enamored of Birdie when they meet in a nightclub and Birdie hooks Kyle up with an attractive yet apparently mute woman in a mini-skirt...
Indeed, Roney is the highlight of this album. From his patient solo during the hyperspeed album opener, "So What," to his uncanny imitation of Miles himself on "All Blues" (harmon mute and all) Roney clearly is in his element. In part, Roney sounds so good because his open sound leaves plenty of room for the rhythm section to strut its stuff; pianist Hancock, bassist Carter and drummer Williams have never sounded better, tight as all hell and at the same time creatively lyrical. Carter's dazzling clarity, Hancock's chord driven, percussive flair, and Williams' inventive and at the same...