Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houston was no trailblazer. She was a phenomenon waiting to happen, a canny tapping of the listener's yen for a return to the musical middle. And because every new star creates her own genre, her success has helped other blacks, other women, other smooth singers find an avid reception in the pop marketplace. As Whitney, her own most dispassionate appraiser, told TIME Correspondent Elaine Dutka, "Here I come with the right skin, the right voice, the right style, the right everything. A little girl makes the crossover and VOOOM! it's a little easier for the others...
Today the women are back in the record stores, and they have dragged rock's first generation in with them. Chanteuse pop is in style again, stronger than ever, in the work of some young and veteran smooth sisters. Warwick won a Grammy for Bacharach's That's What Friends Are For, and Aretha was back at No. 1 with a George Michael duet, I Knew You Were Waiting ( for Me). Streisand's return to Broadway -- or rather to The Broadway Album -- went platinum last year. New voices are enriching the old melodic sound too. From Britain, Sade translated...
...months, Actress Mimi Rogers, cheered from the pit. So did his new pal and Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took the wheel of his own 300 ZX in another division. Cruise, who described his leg of the race as being "smooth as silk," drove for the first half of the three- hour marathon before handing off to a teammate who finished 14th in a field of 42 cars. As for Newman, he came in seventh in a field of 44 contenders. Looks like the kid still has a few things to learn...
Even though Peterson maintains that "it's been very smooth rooming with her," she confesses that "I think sometimes she's kind of startled...
...past they would rather forget, or by being the first German head of state to make a visit to Israel, the 67-year-old president has never taken the easy road. He has chosen instead to use his eloquence and the pulpit provided by his ceremonial office to smooth the bumps in his and his country's past...