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...this follow-up, he makes dramatic use of his four-octave range against spare but inventive arrangements of tunes from the further reaches of the great American songbook. On ballads, Bey's voice can have a humanizing tightness, a vulnerability that draws a listener in. But when the tempo quickens he can really belt it out: the New York Times aptly dubbed him a "hard-bop foghorn...
Chris Isaak's latest landscape, Speak of the Devil, seems like familiar territory. It uses some very well-travelled roads, yet manages to not make it very far. You can feel the gears shift as the music gets louder or picks up the tempo, but somehow you aren't making any progress. While the music is pleasant and comforting enough, Isaak never takes the listener anywhere...
Early action saw both teams fighting to establish the tempo, alternating between aggressive offensive attacks and cut-throat defense. Harvard countered Yale's scoring attack with James Hutcherson, an athletic freshman starting in his first game for the Crimson. Hutcherson consistently outleaped even the athletic Gould, who seemed frustrated with Harvard's swarming defensive presence...
...musical love sequence. Plus, their prayers for vodka to a sanctified picture of Lenin--an act of hilarious blasphemy in itself--give Augustine the chance to bust into the scene as a hormonally-charged babushka with a bottle of liquor tucked into "her" panties, a moment so completely off-tempo with the rest of the act that one can't help screaming with laughter...
Things had gone quiet for a while: a spring adagio after the raucous winter, when minor witnesses came and went and Clinton's approval ratings wafted above it all, as scandal stories fell to a total of only 10 per week on the evening news. The tempo was set largely by the White House. Clinton's lawyers asserted new kinds of executive privilege and then appealed each defeat, and they kept refusing, once, twice, six times, to accept Starr's invitation for Clinton to show up voluntarily to tell his story. Every so often Starr got defiant letters in reply...