Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave" label and used it for its own ends. The alluring lead singer, Deborah Harry, has been accompanied by a different number of male musicians on each of the three albums the group has put together in the last 18 months. From the very beginning Blondie didn't sound at all like a punk band. Those rhythm guitar chords stolen from the New York Dolls and half-spoken Lou Reed vocals weren't where they should have been. Instead Blondie propelled its music with a style from late-'50s and early-'60s rock and roll, most noticeably with a cheap...
...talent has carried Blondie through a musical identity crisis. The tension between the elements of '50s pop and '70s experimentalism which the group tried to fuse made its second album, Plastic Letters, an unsatisfying anomaly. Harry's too-coy but lovable cover of the oldie "Denise" just didn't sound right next to the empty, brutal "Detroit 442" or "Cautious...
...musicians aren't confused anymore. They drop any connection they had with the stream of deranged, safety-pin punk; and the band no longer seems self-conscious about borrowing from the '50s. One song on the album, "11:59," is perfect: a wonderful mix of lyrics that sound like they have meaning and a hard-driving pop tune that doesn't wear out after three hearings...
...inserted into the E. coli bacteria, which live in the human gut, but if these hybrid organism were to escape from the laboratory, they could enter the human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation of DNA research based upon these scientists' recommendations, and documents these scientists' retreat from the principle of DNA research regulation. Lear is at his best when describing the intricacies of the political maneuvers. He demonstrates...
...Waving a dollar bill in front of audiences, Bell demands a return to a sound currency. Not to be outdone, Democratic Candidate Bill Bradley advocates a $25 billion federal income tax cut that will largely benefit people who earn less than $40,000 a year. At the same time, he reminds voters that the Federal Government has the responsibility to provide for basic human needs, such as health, education and employment. He also makes frequent reference to the time he was a star on the New York Knicks basketball team. "You know, I spent a lot of years running around...