Word: spirit
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Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was balanced and embellished by her increasingly sophisticated flair for elaborate instrumental settings. Then, two years ago, she switched gears and released Pop Pop, a glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from...
There are three compelling reasons to see Gettysburg. The first is General Robert E. Lee, the second is Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and the last is Brigadier General Lewis Armistead. They don't embrace all the contortions imposed on the human spirit by the military necessity, but they'll do for a potent, dramatic start. And their existence as well-drawn figures amid the hubbub of a four-hour epic speaks well for writer-director Ronald Maxwell's sober intentions and very creditable achievements in this film. Of the three, Martin Sheen's Lee is the most startling...
...terms of influence, alternative musicians borrow from the rough edges of rock's history. Out of the 1960s comes the spirit of social protest and artistic freedom. From the late 1970s come the primitive, do-it-yourself sensibility of punk and the slam-dancing and stage-diving mayhem that went with it. "We rip off everyone equally," says Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon, which has sold more than 1 million copies of its first album this year. The trick is to sample riffs from somebody who's so long gone that the modern repetition of it sounds fresh...
Pearl Jam came together as a serendipitous offshoot of a Sub Pop band called Green River. Rock legend, passed along by the resentful, has it that bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard split from that band because the lead vocalist wanted to stay true to the experimental spirit of alternative rock, while Ament and Gossard wanted to become big-time rock stars. The band they formed, Mother Love Bone, combined a heavy-metal sound with bouncy tunes. Just as the group seemed ready to break through in 1990, its lead singer died of a heroin overdose...
...Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock in 2004, in response to outcry over the arrangements for protesters at the Democratic convention in Boston. At the time, the zone for protesters - a cordoned-off area under an abandoned railroad track topped by razor wire - was widely seen as affront to the spirit of free expression, but the court finally ruled that protesters had filed their objections too late to make changes to the security plan...