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Those who have come to appreciate her old voice will be glad to know that it still floats through in its purest form in the jazzy and introspective "All the Love." She also goes back to her old European melodic style in 'Suspended in Gaffa." The incomprehensible lyrics follow a melody as appealing as "Oh To Be in Love" as they wander about on a waltz tempo. She doesn't really need these flashbacks to maintain her image, though. Despite the superficial changes in rhythm, voice and musical texture, the album has the same surreal spirit as its predecessors. Kate...
...ideas that directly formed modern minimalism began circulating nearly a quarter-century ago. The first piece to achieve widespread recognition-or notoriety-was Terry Riley's In C (1964). Early minimalism in its purest form, In C consists of 53 short musical motives that can be played by any combination of instruments. Each motive may be played as many times as an individual performer wishes; the piece ends when all 53 fragments have been heard. Unpretentious and, except in the patience required from the listener, undemanding, In ¶was an explicit reaction to the intellectualized compositional climate...
Watergate was an American morality play. The Constitution was the hero. That was Watergate's simplest and purest dimension. But it was fascinatingly more than that. It was one of the nation's most complicated psychological and cultural experiences. The multiple levels and facets of it (somewhat like the levels and intricacies of Nixon's character) give Watergate an almost inexhaustible interest...
...pure pursuits, among the purest has been the pursuit of slipped discs, varicose veins, shin splints, sagging breasts, side stitches and hernias-the traditional rewards of running. Runners who speak of their exquisite pains (and many runners speak of nothing else) say the compensations are, and ought to be, ethereal: surges of joy, increased selfesteem, improved sex lives. But commercialism is afoot and mercenaries are gaining. The Boston Marathon is about to turn...
onstrating that "this is continuing education in its purest form," Shinagel said...