Word: tuning
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Reagan's impatience with pacts and parleys was rooted in his distaste for the balance of terror that arms control helps preserve and fine-tune. Whether he was fantasizing about a perfect space-based defense or the abolition of ballistic missiles, he was implicitly repudiating the system of deterrence that had kept the nuclear peace for 40 years. No wonder Mikhail Gorbachev looked so good. He took gimmicky American proposals, put his own spin on them, made them the basis of progress -- and then bowed to the ensuing applause. Reagan had his own curtain calls too. It was part...
CYNDI LAUPER: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (Epic). It takes a while for her to find her pace, but when she hits Side 2, Lauper burns up the tracks. Warmhearted, rambunctious and (in the words of one memorable tune) winningly Insecurious...
CYNDI LAUPER: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (Epic). It takes a while for her to find her pace, but when she hits Side 2, Lauper burns up the tracks. Warmhearted, rambunctious and (in the words of one memorable tune) winningly Insecurious...
...charts, and a second, Good Thing, is just breaking. The band also features a couple of dexterous guitarists, Andy Cox and David Steele, formerly of the English Beat. But it's Gift everyone is noticing at the moment. He's got a supple way with a tune, and a promising presence onscreen...
However he feels around cod, Gift has a smooth, soulful way around a tune. His voice sounded a little uncertain on a remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds, from the first Cannibals album, Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1985. The sensual assurance Gift acquired on The Raw & the Cooked may come from some special attention he has been lavishing on his vocal cords. "I do go to see someone now and again for guidance about my voice," he reports. "But it's for moral guidance, because I think there's more to singing than just songs." A Cannibals tune like...