Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's investment in the House of Blues, tothe tune of an estimated $25 million, will be usedby Isaac Tigrett, the founder of the House ofBlues who was also a cofounder of the successfulHard Rock Cafe chain...
...more to make room for syndicated fare. CBS is projecting that Letterman will average a 4 rating -- a big jump over its current ratings, though still behind Leno's (who averaged 4.6 last season). Some advertising gurus think even that is too optimistic. After an initial burst of curiosity tune-in, predicts Gene DeWitt, president of a New York City media management firm, the audience will drift back to Leno. "CBS's audience seems to skew a bit older ((than Letterman's)). It's kind of like putting a SoHo comedian into the Fontainebleau hotel...
Joel's gem is the sleepytime title tune. Its consonant-poppin' lyric charts a land where pop merges with gospel, black embraces white, dread is absolved by belief -- in God, in dreams, in the rolling sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...
Running nearly an hour, the music could not be more artless: an endlessly repeated tape loop of a now deceased London derelict intoning a hymn tune. "Jesus' blood never failed me yet," he sings. "There's one thing I know, for He loves me so." The old man's voice is untrained and shaky. And yet the tape, recorded in 1971 for a documentary film, has an undeniable dignity that Bryars found irresistible. Starting with a simple piano accompaniment, the composer gradually expanded the orchestration in a series of live performances, which culminated in 1975 in a half-hour recording...
...free to air whatever they want. Not to mention video games, rented movies -- and, of course, real life. "There's nothing more violent than watching the 11 o'clock news at night, and nothing more toxic," contends Peter Guber, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. "Baby Falls Out of Window! Tune in at 11! We have to apply the same standards to all visual images -- not just what we call entertainment, but news, information and reality-based programs...