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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF DOLE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SUBLIME: WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIDDY MAKES PERFECT | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROWING: 8 LIVE CREW | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: FINDING A COMMON GROOVE | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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