Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until earlier this year, the U.S. seemed to be headed for a more normal rebound, thanks to the brisk tempo of export sales. But then the economy began to suffer from yet another new development: America's growing linkages to the global economy, which has gone into a slump. The world's economy didn't grow at all last year, and is expected to expand only 1.1% this year. The currency crisis that swept Europe last week was a profound symptom of the West's stagnation. Germany's relatively high interest rates, run up by the cost of rapid unification...
...Bennett can even make over Nancy, an early and particularly personal hit that evokes the memory of Sinatra's first wife, into a singular valentine to first love. Working his way up to One for My Baby, Bennett takes a big chance with a brash, almost R.-and- B. tempo. Sinatra's definitive version was an envoi to a lost love and a derailed life; Bennett's is a swagger, a roguish kiss...
Arrested Development has an angry, urgent side too, as in the funky, up- tempo cut Fishin' 4 Religion, an attack on black religious leaders. Baptist churches, Speech complains, "don't do a damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds...
Clinton's Sax Appeal: His campaign needs a change of tempo...
...tone is crystalline, his lines distinctively long and sinuous, full of witty, sometimes startling interjections and exuberant flurries into his laserlike top register, but always settling back into a sleekly lyrical groove. He probes the recesses of ballads like Yesterdays and Imagination with a risky intimacy. On middle-tempo numbers like Rough Ridin' and his own composition Mysterioso, he twists and flashes through the beat with a finger-snapping insouciance...