Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...camshafts, all you had to worry about was how to get the money for your engine parts and the grease off your hands. Then in 1981, Detroit, pressed to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency, started putting something new in their cars: computers. Suddenly, anyone who wanted to fine- tune an engine had to have a degree in data processing...
Despite Hoffman's wonderfully gruff, implosive star performance -- he is so in tune with Dutch's desperation that even his murderous rages are sullen -- this is at heart a movie about the power of a beautiful, fearless woman. In Kidman, an improbable amalgam of Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith, Benton found Drew's embodiment. Toward the end, when she flies out of two men's lives, she seems an airborne goddess of artful deceit...
...sounded like the chorus of a wistful Beach Boys song. Wouldn't it be nice, they all sang, if we could cut taxes? Wouldn't that make voters happy in 1992 and lift the economy too? Once the song started, almost no one wanted to be caught out of tune. Not since both parties raced to heap tax breaks on their constituents a decade ago had Washington seen such an outbreak of charitable zeal. While economists denounced the latest proposals as too little too late and virtually certain to worsen the federal deficit, their warnings went largely unheeded...
...contempt for catering to anyone, a disdain for superficial cool. Morrison, 46, looks like a cross between a puff adder and a pub keeper, and will never seem beguiling in a video. As he sings about his boyhood, weaving references to Sidney Bechet and Hank Williams into a tune that draws on the hymn Just a Closer Walk with Thee, it's obvious he is only trying to keep a clear through-line to living memory...
...lovely -- package is the essence of why CD boxed sets are a blessing. FORTY YEARS: THE ARTISTRY OF TONY BENNETT (Columbia/Legacy) is a four-disc retrospective of one of the world's best song stylists. Not an act of autohagiography, like the current Barbra Streisand set, this 87-tune panorama showcases a singer who is as gracious with a melody as he is generous with his collaborators. Sinatra may supply more drama, Cole may have been cooler, but no one can get to the quick of a lyric with the easy emotion of Bennett. The selections range from...