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Most intriguingly, the album shows Shaw crossing the shadow line that divided swing from bop and the other modernist idioms that took over after 1950. In the hands of most other players, including Shaw's great rival Goodman, the clarinet did not make this transition -- at least not without sacrificing its warmth and lyricism -- which is why it soon was eclipsed by the saxophone as a primary jazz voice. But here Shaw effortlessly absorbs some of bop's angular chromaticism, and his out-of-rhythm codas, all fluttery murmurings or boiling surges of notes, seem to anticipate the free-form...
...does that, he'll jeopardize his base by upsetting the blacks he needs to turn out in droves. When he turns back to recapture them, we'll hit him for supporting the conventional Democratic response of throwing money at the problems. The people who vote, the middle- class swing voters, hear 'city' as a code word for blacks and decay, for everything they've run to the suburbs to avoid. They're upset with the King verdict, sure, but they're more upset about their being the next white victim when they drive through the areas they've mortgaged their...
...team's spring break West Coast swing, Parker did not win one match...
...years critics said he was too casual and lacked the competitive fire to go with a liquid swing that makes even other pros jealous. When he blew a 5- ft. putt to help the American team lose the Ryder Cup to Britain in 1989, he wept. His friend Raymond Floyd, 49, as intense on the course as Couples is relaxed, taught him some golf truths, prime among them that when a player has a lead, he needs to get a bigger lead. In winning the Masters, Couples beat -- who else? -- Raymond Floyd, by two strokes...
...this realm of Shaggy and Scooby's melodramatic mystery marathon, I first learned about hypnotism. In a twisted Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde sequence, for instance, Scooby would be entranced, and would alternate between babbling, snack-seeking "man's best friend" and blood-hungry canine demon. All with the swing of an heirloom pocketwatch...