Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tunnel of Love, an album too good to be true, too smooth to be Bruce, too rough not to be. It is likely to win back any old diehard devotees whose faith has been shaken in recent years and win over any remaining skeptics. It is very heartful, somewhat soulful and completely there. Which is to say, it's a self-aware album...
...young Harvard team--which included a freshman and four sophomores--did not do quite as well in the rest of the tournament. After winning the tournament five consecutive years and finishing second in 1986, Harvard's fourth-place showing this year was considered somewhat disappointing...
...Brandos, on their Honor Among Thieves (Relativity), sing bold, head-on rock, Creedence Clearwater-style. Tunes like Gettysburg and Hard Luck Runner are of a type that has lately been called, somewhat pejoratively, "roots rock," but a band like the Brandos gives ample evidence that those roots run deep and still offer great nourishment...
...Helms is threatening to block the confirmation of C. William Verity, President Reagan's nominee to become Commerce Secretary, on the ground that the former steel- company executive lacks the commitment to bar exports to the East bloc. But the U.S. is likely to grant its industries at least somewhat more freedom to give them a better shot at winning the lucrative contracts that are now going to relatively unfettered foreign firms...
What happened was that Campaign Manager John Sasso phoned Dukakis in Iowa Sept. 27 to warn him that a story in the forthcoming edition of TIME identified the Dukakis campaign as the source of the video. Dukakis somewhat cryptically told Sasso to "check out" the story. But the Governor, who likes to portray himself as a hands-on manager who pays close attention to detail, overlooked one rather salient question. By his own account, he never asked Sasso if the story was true...