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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...
...rock and roll afficionados, should they find little redeeming value in Body Count's lyrics, will treasure the musical innovation and the considerable time Ice-T donates to his own brand of preaching about racial tolerance. Ernie C. represents the backbone of the group's musical expression, alternating the tempo from the blinding rage of mosh-tunes like "Cop Killer" into the subtle guitar lament in "The Winner Loses...
...Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American vernacular, the look of the street, the jostle and visual punch of signs, life imagined in jazz tempo, hard-edged, Cubist-based and infused with optimism. So that left him on the margin...
Harvard will look to its fleet-footed forwards, notably Matt Mallgrave, Brian Farrell and Cory Gustafson, to step up the tempo...