Word: silkier
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...superstitious and had so many hit records with the preamp that I kept it and still have it today," says Reid. Those hits include Kanye West's Late Registration and OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. "I think the average untrained person can hear that it's a smoother, silkier sound, a very warm sound that doesn't mistreat the music but enhances...
...start with The Decameron. In Boccaccio's 14th century compendium of tales, 10 people depart Florence, where the Black Death is raging, for two weeks of food, drink and storytelling in the Tuscan countryside. In Smiley's update, the Iraq war stands in for the plague. Los Angeles, the silkier parts, plays Tuscany. As the war begins, 10 people find themselves in Max's spacious house in Pacific Palisades, where they trade stories, make breakfast and couple--here's the Kama Sutra part--in high definition...
Moving on over to the silkier realm of the popworld, Blue Wail was blessed with a good vocalshowing but was stricken by the same dearth oforiginality as the Voodoo Crabs. Except for thesparkling "Island," a well-crafted, smooth andheartfelt selection under-appreciated by theaudience, the band showed that it needs to work onmaking its sound more unique...
...surrounded himself with a group of thuggish henchmen who specialized in murder and mayhem rather than the silkier arts of persuasion and blackmail once favored by the Mafia. Unlike tradition-bound gangsters who obeyed the vow of silence when arrested, some of these lieutenants cut deals with the law. Over the past year, 270 so-called pentiti provided unprecedented details of the Mob's workings and helped investigators tighten the net around its chief. According to some sources, the tip that led to Riina's arrest came from at least one such stool pigeon who put more faith...
...course, the great symbolic marriage during the Age of Alexander was between the rough-riding culture of Macedonia and Thrace and the silkier Persians and other Orientals. Alexander subdued them all, but he also succumbed to their styles...