Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Helen Humes, 68, torchy, mellow-voiced jazz singer who, after appearing with Count Basic from 1938 to 1942, went on to a solo career that spanned 40 years; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Humes, a rhythm-and-blues star with her 1945 hit Be Baba Leba, retired in 1967 but staged a comeback six years later, singing in the U.S. and Europe until illness forced her to quit last year...
...plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence about how to stay straight while being more cool than the druggies. When he sings, the mild jingle becomes a heavy-rhythm wail...
...always thrived on irony, and he is in top form on the latest album, using his own retreat from hard living to keep the Stones driving forward with a thumping blues number like "Black Limousine." As Richards and fellow guitarist Wood churn out a roughly meshed combination of thick rhythm and screaming leads, the mannish boy mourns...
...post-sixties cynicism," caused by increasingly tough economic times in England. Although Schama has a deep interest in classical music and opera, he has maintained his interest in rock. His favorite contemporary musician is Ian Dury, best known in this country for his song "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick." Although Dury "is thought to be a punk rocker," Schama says he could be better titled as "the poet of Mrs. Thatcher's England. He is clearly in love with Britain and yet he is quite cynical. He sings in the accent of the blighted London suburb...
Such was the dismal rhythm of the economy last week during the worst week of economic news since Ronald Reagan took office. The Dow Jones index of industrial stocks dropped 28.35 points, including a 20-point free fall on Monday, to its lowest level in 13 months. New figures out of Washington showed that inflation in July had increased at an annual rate of 15.4%. And the Government's index of leading economic indicators, which attempts to predict the future course of business, dropped another .1% in July after falling 1% in June and 1.6% in May. What...