Word: organized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone knows that Dracula has a heart; Coppola knows that it is more than an organ to drive a stake into. To the director, the count is a restless spirit who has been condemned for too many years to interment in cruddy movies. This luscious film restores the creature's nobility and gives him peace...
...fourth track, "Shuffle It All," with its swelling Hammond organ a la The Black Crowes, captures the resigned realism of a life of loneliness and impermanence, such as a young Jeff Isbell must have experienced on his way from smalltown Indiana to the rock underworld of Los Angeles...
Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds make liberal use of the Hammond organ, trademark of the retro movement so popular among rock n' roll musicians today, as well as such instruments as the mandolin for a sound noticeably different from that of Guns N' Roses. The soulful, passionate rock n' roll of such tracks as "Shuffle It All" and "Come on Now Inside," the last track on the album, reveal Stradlin's move away from hard-driving bitterness and destruction that characterized his former band...
GORE'S CONGRESSIONAL CAreer was a good deal more productive. In the House he conducted investigations of the contact-lens industry, organ transplants and the Tennessee Valley Authority. In the Senate he concentrated on environmental legislation and arms control, immersing himself in the technical details of START, Star Wars and the proposal in the early '80s for a nuclear freeze. His main concern, he said, was finding a balance between "national power and security on the one hand and long-term human survival on the other." Recalls a congressional friend and colleague, Representative Tom Downey of New York: "Al worked...
Assembled by nature and honed by evolution, the convoluted 3-lb. organ positioned between our ears represents a triumph of bioengineering, one that continues to elude comprehension and defy imitation. "The brain," declares molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of the physical structure of DNA, "is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe." The + quest to understand the biology of intelligence is likely to occupy the minds of the world's best scientists for centuries to come. The task may prove more challenging than those alive today suppose, requiring perhaps new breakthroughs in physics and chemistry...