Word: soft
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Overseeing this ambitious effort was production director Brian O'Leary, who admits, "It's definitely been a nail-biting experience. But I've always been good at creating order out of chaos." The soft-spoken Harvard business school graduate, who spends his free time these days rewiring his suburban New Jersey house, joined TIME in 1983 as assistant operations manager for our international editions. After a three-year assignment setting up and running our production plant in Singapore, and a successful stint as ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's first production director, O'Leary happily returned to TIME two years ago to assume...
More often than not, though, 10,000 Maniacs avoids falling into this bad poetry trap. Songs like "Circle Dream" fuse Merchant's unique voice, soft background instrumentation and well-written, image-laden lyrics, to form a hauntingly beautiful song...
More often than not, though, 10,000 Maniacs avoids falling into this bad poetry trap. Songs like "Circle Dream" fuse Merchant's unique voice, soft background instrumentation and well-written, image-laden lyrics, to form a hauntingly beautiful song...
...Star Me Kitten" and "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" are somewhat less successful experiments. "Star" is a slow, soft jazzy piece--with a few guitar and bass notes and occasional cymbals--that drags along with a breathy Stipe vocal ("I am your possession/So fuck me kitten"). In the background is a hovering "ah" that endures throughout the three minutes and 16 seconds. Lazy "New Orleans" is a two-minutes ditty with reverberating guitars and sorrowful strings...
...Star Me Kitten" and "New Orleans Instrumental No. I" are somewhat less successful experiments. "Star" is a slow, soft jazzy piece--with a few guitar and bass notes and occasional cymbals--that drags along with a breathy Stipe vocal ("I am your possession/ So fuck me kitten"). In the back ground is a hovering "ah" that endures throughout the three minutes and 16 seconds. Lazy "New Orleans" is a twominute ditty with reverberating guitars and sorrowful strings...