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...wants to answer their questions honestly. It's why Dole says things like, "We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say." He doesn't fake well; Dole has consistently been reluctant to use a TelePrompTer, which lets him pretend to riff when he's actually reading a speech. Nor will he take advantage of symbolism that he finds sacred, like posing for campaign shots at the Iwo Jima Memorial. He won't even wear casual clothes when a photo op requires it. "This is serious business," he told his media adviser...
Nowell's last gift to everyone else is this outstanding album. The first song on it, Garden Grove, features a scratchy, staccato guitar riff, characteristic of ska, along with sampled snatches of sound and music. The result is a feeling of restful introspection coupled with an underlying sense of urgency. On April 29, 1992 (Miami), the band combines an itchy ska beat with a kind of enlightened gangsta-rap attitude to capture the incendiary, anarchic mood on the streets during the nationwide Rodney King uprisings. Nowell is not just channel-surfing through these emotions and genres...
...there are not enough "grownups" on the campaign. (She is partly responsible for bringing former Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld aboard three weeks ago.) Ultimately, she is a combination coach, copywriter and stage manager. She urges her husband on, provides him with some of his best lines (the candidate's riff on "vetoing Bill Clinton" was a Liddy-tested favorite) and gets him to put his best face forward...
...sometimes it is hard to remember, watching them get ready for a practice on the Tennessee River or inhale bagels with astonishing speed during a break, that these young women are Olympians. For in their unstudied and hilarious way, they will talk, or rather riff, about nearly anything: their boyfriends or the lack thereof, the body-fat ratios of the rowers on the men's team, how the Southern Belle paddle-wheel boat will sometimes cruise by them so the tour guide can say, "Off to the right, we have the Olympic rowing team. Take a closer look, ladies...
...numbers are built on the era's vintage tunes and formats--the loose, buoyant ensembles (Moten Swing and a hypnotically undulating Pagin' the Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with...