Word: reacquaints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old bass player who has recorded with everyone from Betty Carter to Diana Krall. A Family Affair (Verve), his third album as a leader, was released last summer. It includes some smart electric tunes (though listeners who actually lived through the 1970s may not be eager to reacquaint themselves with the sound of Moog synthesizers) but reaches its peak with an acoustic, rhythmically virtuosic version of the Sly Stone title song that somehow manages to swing while also suggesting the original funk beat. McBride says he's trying to provoke: "How many more concept albums can you handle? Such...
...humbly offer a few suggestions. Next Sunday night at 8 p.m., don't watch "The Simpsons." Watch "Touched by an Angel" instead. More importantly, thank your parents for bringing you into the world and for sacrificing so much to keep you here. Find a code of morality, or perhaps reacquaint yourself with the religious tradition of your forebears...
Where the strength of Kavanagh's style is most evident in its ability to grapplewith this ambiguity--to name duplicity withsharp-shooter accuracy that gives weight to eachside and validity to contradiction. Refined by avocabulary that sends the reader scurrying for thedictionary both in attempt to reacquaint herselfwith nautical anatomy and with words of ratherstartling specificity, Gaff Topsails is notalways an easy book to read. Although Kavanagh'sintimate knowledge makes for description asaccurate and illuminating as his vocabulary,imbuing this description with creative imaginationdemands a heavy toll in effort. There is a chapterdevoted exclusively to the geological history ofthe Newfoundland...
...most of the lawyers are already thinking about life after Simpson. Darden, who has looked solemn and unhappy much of the time, was asked last week what would be next for him. "Me?" he said with an apparent straight face. "This is my last case." Shapiro, who plans "to reacquaint myself with my family," will also soon be joining a large Los Angeles law firm as a senior partner, dissolving his own. But Johnnie Cochran swears that if O.J. is retried, he will still be beside him. "Despite the fact that I'll probably be in bankruptcy, I'll stay...
...National Pastime is to survive, owners and players must take action together to improve these weaknesses and reacquaint the American public with the beauty of baseball...