Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the band should be commended for attempting variety within "Seven," some of their wanderings from the dance genre prove less than successful. The subdued, rap-like rhythm of "Don't' Wait That Long" becomes tiresome and droning. And the harsher, angrier quality of "Mother" ("This war's a motherfucker/How many sons did we kill today?) sounds too forced and heavy-handed...
Felix tears the soles off shoes, pastes barge glue onto leather, hammers the new sole on and pares away the excess. His head angles forward after a lifetime of looking downward. Without interrupting the rhythm of his work he says, "So what questions do you have?" I ask him to talk about his work...
Hard concrete courts, baking under the heat of the L.A. sun, and young men from the ghetto shaking out their frustrations by playing a kind of attack basketball -- all high-bouncing dazzle, nasty elbows and insults that come at you in rap rhythm. Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) intrudes into this essentially black world with intent to hustle (gambling on these pickup games is heavy). Maybe WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP, but in all other respects he's a fully qualified player -- except possibly in the brains department. But smart Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) has enough wit for both...
...Brooks but pithier, kind of like a whistle-clean Merle Haggard. His 1989 hit single, A Better Man, was a true heartrender, a no-nonsense male confessional, and suggests that his new album, due in September, will be worth the wait. There are the Kentucky Headhunters, described by their rhythm guitarist Richard Young as "the scariest things in country music." The KenHeads blend whimsy, old-time picking and some refried hippie riffs with the dynamism of a rock band from some Ozark Olympus...
...would get up in class and read Shakespeareout loud," Julia recalled. "I took to the sound ofthe language and the rhythm, the iambicpentameter. I liked it and the teacher liked...