Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned its back on its own in the face of organized, traditionalist pressure." But it's the personal details that hit home in this story of an endearing if imperfect wisecracker, one whose few remaining friends today remember him, above all else, not for his jokes but for his quiet courage...
Starr's fix bears a passing resemblance to that old game-theory staple, the prisoner's dilemma. In that game the suspects in a crime are isolated from one another and invited to cooperate. If they all stay quiet, they'll be O.K., but if anyone confesses, the others go to jail. Each prisoner then has to calculate his own odds by guessing at his accomplices' instincts for self-preservation...
...showing that Jones received raises and a promotion after the alleged incident, she is likely to say that she peeked at colleagues' paychecks and saw that they were bigger than hers. She will also say that Clinton implicitly threatened retaliation when he allegedly asked her to keep the incident quiet and when a state trooper later asked about her husband by name, even though she had never mentioned...
...nature of the music was easy to hear. The first movement, "Two Ghosts," sounded as spooky as the name might have implied. Eerie, gentle phrasing underscored the motion of the "High Ghost" and the "Low Ghost" between the chimes and glockenspiel and the tuba and low strings. An unusually quiet orchestra exquisitely realized the dissonance. (HRO is master of the loud; exuberant finales seemed continually to hit new heights of forte during the concert.) The dramatic dynamic shift was especially effective since the next movement, "Warrior," opened with a drum shot like a pistol crack and only became more intense...
...Always" made it one of the most perfect power ballads ever. And in 1995, Van Halen chipped in with the confident "Can't Stop Lovin' You." Still, with Steven Tyler headed for membership in the American Association of Retired Persons and with Jon Bon Jovi headed nowhere, given his quiet 1997 solo single "Midnight in Chelsea," arena rock is rapidly nearing extinction. In its absence--if recent Grammy Awards are any indication--we face pop airwaves dominated by the mushy background music of Jewel, Celine Dion, Hootie and the Blowfish, Shawn Colvin and Paula Cole...