Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After another brief delay, the musicians, sporting predictably funky fashions, entered in a single-file procession, led by the snare drum beat of "groove regulator" Yosef Siegel. They mounted the stage and began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...
...Clean Air Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act snare most of the blame for this increase. But Bush rightly defends his signing of all three bills. His campaign manager, Frederic V. Malek, told Republicans on the Hill that Bush would run on this record. The response from at least one conservative member of Congress: "That ain't going...
...winding country melodies to light folk numbers to blackface minstrel songs--a genre with a strange place in the history of popular American music. The arrangements of the songs vary, but are all thickly textured with instruments rarely present in popular music today such as fiddle, mandolin, banjo, "field snare" and "bones." Shocked Iyrics are clever and ironic, only sometimes focusing on traditional country and blues lyrical themes...
...most famous black supermodel, though, Campbell does not snare the same volume of advertising assignments as her white counterparts, nor has she been signed by a cosmetics company. "I may be considered one of the top models in the world," she says, "but in no way do I make the same money as any of them." Asian models find it especially difficult to get work, according to Rosemarie Chalem at the Zoli agency in New York City. "In every country," says Chris Owen, director of the British agency ElitePremier, "blond hair and blue eyes sell...
...listen to Niki Taylor, the lovely Florida blond, the model many say could represent the next generation of superstars. She has had 42 magazine covers since she started working two years ago, and is the youngest model ever to snare a big cosmetics contract. "I'm just playing it day by day and seeing how it goes," Taylor says. Does she want to be modeling at 25? "No," she says, and then her voice drifts off. "I don't know . . ." What she is probably thinking is, Twenty-five! That's so old! Who can think so far ahead...