Word: roughs
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...much that Ennio Morricone has lost count. He just never kept one. By rough reckoning, he has upwards of 130 original scores for film and television to his credit. This total does not include his various chamber and orchestral compositions, nor does it tally all the musical arranging he did for records, radio and the theater. But whatever the vagaries of the composer's archival arithmetic, there is no doubt that he has written scores for many films that count heavily in contemporary history...
...defense was a good offense. He tweaked Shultz by alluding to Iranscam and the Tower report, saying, "By engaging in politics and by running the government, one has to meet with some troubles and difficulties. We have also had a similar case." Shultz insisted that Reagan had smoothed his "rough patch" by "dealing with it swiftly...
Harvard made its way to the semifinals with a pair of quarterfinal wins over a rugged but rough-edged Brown team. RPI took a harder road, tying Colgate, 1-1, in the two-game quarterfinal series and then beating the Raiders, 2-0, in the 10-minute mini-game that followed the end of the second contest...
...live band. The credit for the successes of Paris--and the blame for its failures--must rest on the shoulders of producer Ian "Mack" McKenzie, who committed that live sound to vinyl. For most of the songs, the production is too antiseptic, too well-scrubbed for the type of rough, crude music the Huxtons play. Occasionally, though, McKenzie and the Huxtons click, as on the wall-of-noise landscape behind the Huxton's theme song "I've Been Around...
WHEN I FIRST SAW VOLCANO SUNS three years ago, they were a nascent three-piece outfit featuring drummer Peter Prescott, formerly of Mission of Burma. At the time, they were playing with the wretched Ben Vaughan Combo, opening up for a Violent Femmes show. The trio's songs were rough, half-improvised ditties with common foods like popcorn and margarine being the typical subject matter. It's no wonder I did not think much of them...