Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beck, in interviews and in his music, is an explorer. On each CD he poses musical questions and sets out to answer them. Not definitively, but interestingly. His last CD, Mutations, was a meditation on blues and folk that grew in power with each listen. His new CD, Midnite Vultures (Geffen), is a series of witty experiments with rock, hip-hop and even soul. "Soul has a tradition of manliness to it, but it also has this emotional core that can be raw and open and vulnerable," says Beck. "In rock and alternative rock, if you're emotional...
...With a small-business guy, it's a day-to-day struggle to survive," says Larry Mocha. He is president and owner of Air Power Systems Co., a Tulsa, Okla., maker of air cylinders and other parts for trucks that his father founded in 1964. At times, Mocha recalls, he had to borrow on his personal credit card to meet his payroll. A year ago, though, he bought the assets of a local machine shop whose owner was "tired of being a small businessman." The acquisition enabled Air Power to double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking...
...relations with their parents; or d) those who live in nontraditional families? Answer: all of the above. But according to a study in the December issue of the journal Health Education & Behavior, the most important of these is parental attitude; the least is family composition. Conclusion: never underestimate the power of parental instruction--no matter who does the parenting...
MINIMUM WAGE AS Congress debates whether to raise it, a look at how its buying power has declined...
Marveling at songs that "grabbed your soul out of your body and scrubbed it clean before putting it back," Alterman finds literary power and lessons to live by in Springsteen's work. Part biography, part lyrical deconstruction and part fan letter, Alterman's book locates the singer-songwriter's strength in his ability to connect the small struggles of the common man with the broad political and social forces that engulf us, and to do so with a human touch...