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...eccentrics (think of England). Two of these were Clinton's mother and his Uncle Buddy. Virginia Kelley (nee Cassidy) is a free spirit who has outlived three husbands and goes to the racetrack with her fourth. In her home, not far from the large open Bible, hangs a sampler that says RACE TRACKS ARE THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WINDOWS CLEAN PEOPLE. She has maintained a career in nursing throughout her adult life...
...speech -- if one deleted the Murphy Brown passage -- was a reasonably persuasive and sometimes eloquent sampler: a punitive-inspirationa l hymn to hard work, family, integrity and personal responsibility. Some people later took Quayle's words to be fatuous white-bread truisms -- Norman Rockwell evocations of an America long gone. But if the ideas could be considered outside the inflammatory political and racial context of the moment, they had a ring of common sense. A number of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, might have made the same points without controversy -- and have. The family, ^ Quayle said, is important...
...flavor to pop tunes like The Look of Love. But today's record buyers, their tastes enlivened by the spicier fare of Jamaican reggae and South African mbaqanga, demand more authentic sounds. In his new album, Brasileiro, Mendes digs deeper into his musical roots to produce a down-home sampler ranging from a lively baiao -- folk music from Brazil's northeast -- to an off-beat Bahian-style rap. There are lots of leisurely sambas too, but the best selections are those on which drummers from Rio's samba schools burst into the explosive rhythms that provide the sound track...
...gospel, particularly among young black music lovers. It publishes a newsletter and organizes concerts, including a music festival in Bari, Italy, last June and free performances in playgrounds in black neighborhoods all through the summer. It has also produced its first album, The History of Our Future, an eclectic sampler distributed by Rykodisc that features 10 of the association's bands. Says executive director Don Eversley: "We're trying to show that some of the artificial boundaries that have been put up shouldn't exist...
...take this thing out of the box and sound like Michael Jackson. If you really get inside and learn it, there's a lot of creative possibilities for the composer to go inside and get those sounds that are inside your head that can onlybe realized by a sampler or a really coolsynthesizer module and developing the techniquesnot only to play the instrument but also to playthe sounds...