Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cruel marked "new jack swing" as a creative hotbed of black pop. The fresh mix of funky, hiphop beats and bright, soulful melodies set a widely influential musical style, fitting perfectly around Brown's slim vocal talents. Naturally, expectations were out of sight for Brown's latest solo outing, Bobby, which assembles the same producers as Cruel. The album, however, doesn't pack the wallop to distinguish it from other slick R. & B. records on the charts these days. Something in Common, a ballad Brown shares with his wife Whitney Houston is typical of the problem: short on juice...
...other states are considering assuming the medical-school loans of physicians who agree to enter the primary-care field. And Kansas, which faces a shortage of rural doctors, is pondering a program that would send family-practice professors from the state university's medical school to fill in for solo practitioners from time to time when they need a break...
Stand-up comics can get chewed up fast in TV. First they are squeezed dry of material by Letterman, Leno and the other talk-show bloodsuckers. Then, if they grow popular enough, they are plucked from their solo job and awarded a sitcom. There, major pitfalls await them. Some are exposed as Johnny-one-notes (Kevin Meaney in Uncle Buck); others are simply unable to make the transition from joke telling to character building (Richard Lewis in Anything but Love). Only a few -- Roseanne Arnold, Tim Allen -- succeed without selling...
Gore traveled through Connecticut yesterday onone of his first solo campaign trips. His NewEngland sojourn marks the first time a Democraticnominee has visited this region since last month'sconvention
...even many street musicians support volume restrictions, which they say would allow solo flutists to coexist with rock bands on weekends...