Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaker in My Country, the first song, is an oldster reminiscing about the dead old days of watching an antiseptic world on black-and-white TV ("We got comedy, tragedy/Everything from A to B"); he might be Pleasantville's sitcom dad, now neck high in self-pity. The next tune, Shame, is in the head of a rich coot ranting about the young woman (and the gun) he needs to be happy. The third song, I'm Dead (but I Don't Know It), is the plaint of a pop singer who, after 30 years, has "nothing left...
...Newman the lyricist is a refreshing irritant. And Newman the composer is a sweet seducer. His music is a lush amalgam of Americana (Stephen Foster and Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They...
...ceremony ended with the singing of the 1999 Class Ode, sung by members of the Harvard Krokodiloes to the tune of "Fair Harvard," with lyrics by George W. Hicks...
...Though it dropped a 5-1 decision to cross-town rival Boston University in its final regular-season tune-up, Harvard confidently set its sights on No. 21 Fresno State, its first round opponent...
...even when they try to pay attention, may not be hearing. Betty Ford--no, not that one--is president of the Parent Teachers Association in a Westchester, Calif., middle school and works hard to catch cues of brewing trouble. Last week, she says, she made a special effort to tune in to her 14-year-old, Adam, as he told her about a recent paint-ball game. "I didn't give a rat's a__," she admits, "but I listened...