Word: pedal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emmanuel Ax returns with his rich and globular tone, but more often than not in this recording it acts as an obscuring miasmic veil, rather than a complement to the strings. He has an extremely heavy left hand and a matching right foot on the sustaining pedal. His efforts are more appropriate for piano concerti than for these subtly textured chamber works...
...Joel Klein. They thought it "would not be appropriate," and Ludwig told the President so when next they met. So what? Maybe nothing -- but the incident does not exactly disprove critics who are worried that the White House tried to exert improper influence on government regulatory agencies to soft-pedal Whitewater-related inquiries...
Unlike its female counterparts, the men's fencing team ran like a used car with a broken gas pedal this year, crawling along for most of the season before its engine finally kicked...
...house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible to the soft-pedal...
...dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album of submerged pain. Redbone, written by the singer, consists only of her molasses vocals, the twanging of a pedal steel guitar and African-tinged percussion. On the album's best track, a cover of Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Wilson reveals the song's soul not through vocal gymnastics, but by lingering caresses of each line. She creates emotional tension by holding power in reserve...