Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort through the controversy and assess the quality of that research, the National Institutes of Health last week assembled a panel of experts in a scientific court known officially as a consensus conference. After three days of analyzing studies and interrogating practitioners, the panel was unexpectedly upbeat. "It's time to take acupuncture seriously," said its chairman, David Ramsay, president of the University of Maryland. "There are a number of situations where it really does work...
...clubland cover of I Say a Little Prayer was featured on the sound track to the Julia Roberts film My Best Friend's Wedding and made its way into the Top 40 on the pop charts. The song also appears on King's new album, an effusive collection of upbeat, danceable reggae. The best song here, the aggressively catchy L-L-Lies, works because the accusatory tone of the lyrics allows King to show some verve and edge. Some of the other songs on the album are a bit too sugary and overproduced. King has a vibrant vocal presence...
...most, the essence of "ska music" is energy: an upbeat, catchy rhythm, that provides the infective inspiration to dance. If the style of music has one fault, it is that it can be easily taken over by its energy, focusing on bouncing rhythms at the expense of meaning and lyrical expression. Easy listening ska therefore seems a contradiction in terms, sapping the music of its most important quality, its energy. However, this contradiction could provide an opportunity to challenge the accepted form of ska music, injecting it with a new meaning and lyrical relevancy...
...with a Ween cover, and then moving on to two new original pieces--"His Lamest Flame" and "Western Union Song"--which may or may not appear on Got No Shadow. Although Lord played both songs solo, either could easily be adapted as band material, especially "His Lamest Flame," an upbeat and gregarious sour grapes song which wouldn't easily be adulterated by backup accompaniment. The audience responded enthusiastically to the new material, crowding up to the stage for the first time during the sequence of bands that evening; they also got a kick out of Lord's announcement that...
Jeff knows me well, having shared a foxhole in the equity markets for half a dozen years. "You can't go on Good Morning America and start a panic. That will generate a headline, way too high profile," he said. "Just don't be yourself. Don't be upbeat. People will get the message. Stress long-term, but don't smile, don't laugh and don't be glib." Sure enough, 10 minutes later, 10 excruciating minutes after I gave my first downbeat, frowning talk on GMA, my cell phone rang. "What's the matter?" my wife asked. "Who died...