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...back to basics - the 12-bar blues - in the uptempo and deathlessly alluring ?What?d I Say.? There was nothing revolutionary in the lyric, except its daring to be mildly ribald (?Hey, mama, doncha treat me wrong/ Come and love your daddy all night long,? etc.). Nor was the notion of releasing a jazzy, largely instrumental number in two parts; the year before, drummer Cozy Cole enjoyed a two-sided hit with ?Topsy.? What was unusual was the four-part structure: three verses of piano, then four verses of blues patter, then the ?What?d I say? chorus, and finally...
...notion of overseas study is extremely well-institutionalized here. A very substantial amount of the student population has been going abroad for generations,” Donoghue says...
Chase rejects the notion that success is derived from a formula...
...caught over the summer of 1982 the venture capital leverage buyout bug,” he says. “I was just smitten with this notion of buying companies versus being an investment banker...
...didn't dynamite the human form as Picasso did or distill it to its essence like Matisse. In Modigliani's work the figure doesn't look aggressively, truculently modern. Modernized is more like it, gently conformed to what would turn out to be the ever emerging middle-class notion of newness...