Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BANGLES EVERYTHING (Columbia). Cool sex and hot rhythm from four women rockers. Crash and Burn tells the story: funny, flinty and slick enough to slide into your heart like a knife...
...recent solo album, Down in the Groove, drew tepid reviews, though an album he recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen of soul," won two Grammy Awards in 1988. -- MARVIN GAYE, rhythm- and-blues singer, was shot and killed by his father in an argument in 1984, on his 45th birthday. -- S.I. HAYAKAWA, former president of San Francisco State University, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1982. He is honorary chairman of U.S. English, which seeks to make English the official language...
...switch] took us out of our rhythm," Harvard guard Heidi Kosh said. "We were shooting the shots. We just weren't hitting them...
...Outside the parentheses is a terrific dance band; inside is a real trailblazer. The group, out of Detroit by way of some dark but friendly musical star, gets hold of a brawny rhythm-and-blues foundation, overlays it with some up-to-the-second dance sounds and ladles up lyrics with strains of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After that's all done, the band gets down to its real mission: to shake the house down. Explains Was (Not Was) co-founder Don Was: "We would like to sound like the Motown revue on acid...
...passer named Norman, a runner named Elbert and a linebacker from Dartmouth who serves on the Cincinnati city council. Councilman Reggie Williams does boast a salty tattoo on one bulging forearm, depicting a piece of music. "It's a crescendo," he says. "You have to have a certain rhythm in your life." While scoring 18 touchdowns, rookie Elbert ("Ickey") Woods has smoothed the black edge off several unenlightened symbols that have crept into currency in Cincinnati. Fans have taken to calling the stadium "the Jungle," and throughout the games they chant like a minstrel chorus, "Who dey think gonna beat...