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...might have disappeared permanently if not for its canny ability simultaneously to buck and ride the new-wave trend, grafting its brawny, blues-inflected guitar licks onto slick synthesizer grooves and pulsing dance beats. On multiplatinum-selling albums such as 1983's Eliminator and 1985's Afterburner, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard (the only bandmate without one) perfected a progressive yet reassuringly familiar rock stance and tapped a huge audience that shared their ambivalence. By the end of the decade, however, their sound had become all too accurately described by the title of their...
Liat Kaplan's direction creates a slick synchronicity between characters, keeping the emotion at a dramatic rather than melodramatic level. In places, this results in woodenness, but it is kept to a minimum even in the potentially static second and third acts. Even in the most turgid moments of the plot the emphasis on appropriateness and refinement does not give way to the hackneyed and postured acting that has labeled opera in the minds of many as a dramatic dead...
...recent drive to send humanitarian aid to Bosnia, I have a few experiences I would like to share with the purveyors of the conventional wisdom. During this effort, I came into contact with many students who astonished me with their altruism. For anyone who is confronted by a slick marketing type condescendingly writing our generation off with that "X," I offer the following few vignettes. Each one is an anecdote about people who are idealists, and who are willing to give of themselves to a communal cause. I give them to fellow members of my generation to defend ourselves against...
...shallow, slick and his nose is brown," a club member wrote of another prospective. "Unless we have sunny days for the outings, don't expect...
...mandolinist and harmonicist Jeff Bird (who have toured on and off with the Junkies for years) left the stage for a couple of tunes off of the Junkies first album, Whites Off Earth Now, the Junkies glimmered with a raw intimacy that was previously overpowered by Myhr's slick lead guitars lines. (To be fair, Myhr often played an aching slide guitar, such as on "Cause Cheap is How I Feel," but his sunglasses and purple shirt didn't totally jibe with the Margo's flowing shapeless dress or the Timmins brothers jeans and sneakers...