Word: recording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extra edge to all the passions that motivate people to express themselves - political tension, national pride, economic disparity, religious fervor - and our polls were chum in the water for those with an overwhelming need to make themselves heard. Make themselves heard they did, turning out in record numbers for our polls, periodically flooding our tiny newsroom with ravenous vote-generating robots, angry e-mails and even threats of eternal damnation. The polls that touched a nerve and set off huge responses gave us insights into the topics that can really motivate a group - or an entire nation. Here...
...Thursday-night ratings juggernaut is a collection of somewhat monotonous Savage Garden sound-alike music. While dozing off to depressing, somber tunes about love, relationships and the strife between men and women crooned by famous artists such as Smash Mouth, Duncan Sheik and Lisa Loeb, the highlight of the record is most certainly the sound bites of the dialogue from the series itself. Although these depict the atrocious acting skills of Jennifer Aniston and the like, they break up the droning monotony of the songs...
Listening to Rainbow, Mariah Carey's seventh album, it's clear that the best reason to rock this New Year's will be to celebrate the end of the Mariah decade. Her record sales throughout the '90s have grown to rival those of Elvis and the Beatles, and to many ears the Mariah sound has grown indistinguishable from the endless cosmetics aisles and multiplexes of our postmodern world. But there's no pot of gold at the end of Rainbow. The album strips that sound down to its purest form, cleverly obfuscating Mariah's predictably smarmy lyrics with sonorous mumblings...
...also] got a record of leadership. Texas is the second-largest state in the nation," Bush said...
Since this is Clinton - whose public passions notoriously tend toward the convenient - and since he is on the record as a vociferous promoter of free trade, the hand-wringing over labor and environmental raises the question: Are the President's concerns genuine or merely politically expedient? "A lot of Clinton's concern is genuine," says Dowell. "As the mayor of Seattle noted, many Clinton administration officials were protesters themselves not so long ago." And, says Dowell, he is wise to acknowledge the misgivings harbored by many of the protesters. "Clinton accomplished something critical in his speech," says Dowell. "He made...