Word: riff
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...locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments chase each other around the barn, hanging on a single chord and repeating a riff over and over with subtle variations and rising power while the folks outside dance in the dirt. This is trance music--the kind of sonic moonshine that has been served up for decades in the juke joints of north Mississippi--and it raises a question: How did these shaggy Dickinson...
...deft move, the foreign-policy lightweight who failed a pop quiz on global leaders last fall outflanked Gore from the right and the left. The plan plays a new riff on Ronald Reagan's beloved theme of substituting Star Wars for "mutually assured destruction," erecting magical defenses that would eliminate the need for so many dangerous warheads. Bush and his advisers mulled over that concept a year ago in Austin, Texas, then set it aside for the primaries. The topic popped up again during his Sunday phone conferences with Condoleezza Rice and other aides. On May 2, Bush summoned Rice...
...potential of the moodier material. Nothing here's as evocative as The Hot Rock's "The Size of Our Love." And Tucker and fellow singer/guitarist Carrie Brownstein focus on the usual topics in their direct lyrics: relationships and the rock scene. The real interest here comes from the riff-driven, mood-shifting songs, Tucker's delivery (everything from talk-singing to moaning, not to mention singing) and, most of all, the casual, gripping mesh of voices and guitars. Turn it up, grrls. A- -Daniel Luskin...
...that "we can't trust poor parents to make a decision for their children." His hands reach out as he speaks. His eyes are animated, especially when the subject is education or the need to treat immigrants with respect. "This sounds like rote," he told TIME after unspooling a riff on how to improve schooling for the underclass. "It's not! It's what I believe! It's not somebody writing a speech for me. It's my passion...
...almost goes without saying that the mere addition of pasties and G-strings is hardly a well-documented method for keeping out the riff-raff. To believe otherwise, as Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, "is nothing short of a titanic surrender to the implausible." Even the plurality opinion expressed similar skepticism. Nevertheless, the court upheld the ordinance on the grounds that the city did not necessarily need to prove a correlation between nude dancing and crime. It needed only to show that the ordinance would somehow further the city's interest in controlling such negative effects, rather...