Word: slide
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Warren Haynes' thick sound is well complemented by his authoritative attack and tough blues riffs, not to mention his tasteful slide guitar playing. While Haynes' bluesy style earns a visceral appeal, Dickie Betts' fluid meanderings find a more melodic one. The band's new single (written by Betts) "Where It all Began" gave an excellent demonstration of Betts' ability to find melodic grooves while improvising...
...important sense, of course, the photographs did just that. They alerted the world to the plight of the Rwandans, just as the snapshots of Jupiter gave earthlings an invaluable cosmic slide show. The danger of images lies not in the information they carry but rather in our propensity to believe -- once we have seen them -- that we have seen the whole picture. The much heralded visual age is nearly upon us, and we can take justifiable pride in our new abilities to look at each other over long distances and to take close- ups of deep space. We should also...
...week -- to make American investments more attractive to foreigners. But most analysts doubt such a move would accomplish much unless it were synchronized with interest-rate cuts in Europe and Japan, which would not be easy to achieve. It could even be dangerous. The big worry about the dollar slide is that it will fan U.S. inflation by raising the price of imported goods and the American- made products that compete against them. But the U.S. imports more from Canada and Mexico than from Germany and Japan, and the American currency has actually risen against the Canadian dollar...
Throughout this scene, Connolly seems to slide gradually into his character. His knowledge seems encyclopedic, but unfortunately, he sounds that way, too, Like most of the female characters in Mamet's plays, Miss A. is only half, if even that much, of a person. We can see this even in his naming of her without a real name but only an initial. Susman shows the skeptical, yet innocent and naive side to the character as best as is possible with such a fraction of a human being. To Mamet Miss A. exists only as a plot structure to instigate...
...Federal Reserve launched an international effort to halt the dollar's steady slide, but the rescue was largely seen as a failure since the greenback rallied only briefly and the Dow industrials and bond markets plummeted. Earlier in the week currency traders pushed the dollar below the 100-yen mark for the first time since World...