Word: stan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elvis and the saxophone, Clinton's musical taste is broad but bland. Early in the campaign, he sat down with Rolling Stone for a lengthy interview about pop music. Among his favorites: Judy Collins, Dolly Parton, Michael Bolton, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Harry Belafonte, the Temptations, the Beatles and Stan Getz. Nothing, in short, that cannot be easily found in a prominent place in any shopping-mall music store in America. This middle-of- the-road eclecticism is typical of Clinton's generation, lost in the rock- is-dead wilderness, casting about for a musical resting place between...
...important personnel shift involved Susan Thomases, who had nominally been head of Hillary Clinton's personal staff but had annoyed others by sometimes abrasive forays onto their turf. For example, she blamed Stan Greenberg for a poll that included questions about Hillary's liabilities, which had led the pollster to write a memo about "the Hillary problem." Thomases in June was given the powerful but narrowly defined job of campaign scheduler...
Although the research does not prove cause and effect, it shows an unmistakable correlation between the degree of exposure and the risk of childhood leukemia. "From a research point of view, they add significant information," says Stan Sussman, manager of electromagnetic-field studies for the Electric Power Research Institute, a California-based organization funded by utility companies. "It is becoming more and more likely that there is something associated with living near high-power lines, especially for childhood leukemia...
...other hand, somebody owes us an apology for the relentless portentousness of Consenting Adults. Kay's seduction of Richard verges on a Mae West parody, while his response to it has something of Stan Laurel about it. And once a capital crime occurs, the sheer complication of its planning and its solution is too implausible. Alan J. Pakula's direction consists largely of pullbacks and pans that never reveal anything interesting -- except, perhaps, his own misguided ambitions for a film whose one real hope was briskness and irony, a sense that this subject is fully ripened for satire...
...with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump, and the Afro-Cuban tunes sound drivingly modern. Dizzy is an Eldorado that never runs on empty...