Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bailey has chosen his hero well, and Morrison's influence alone is enough to make All Fools Day a pretty good record. "Just Like Fire Would" is a catchy single, relying on some brisk acoustic guitar strumming in the vein of "Full Force Gale." Moreover, the title manages to recreate fairly accurately the easy pace and daring vocal rhythms of Morrison's best work...
...Face In the Crowd" and "Playing With Fire" are Lisa Lisa's tough turns on vocals. In the former, replete with some nasty conversational repartee in the vein of Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately," Lisa Lisa plays a fan attracted to a male singer. The latter, the album's best and most aggressive track, is heavily layered with keyboards and Spanador's (of the Cult Jam) vibrant guitar solo. "I'm not your everyday average woman," Lisa Lisa sings. She tells us she will not be the victim of any relationship, because when you mess with...
Aquino's government has also instituted a version of Reaganomic tax reform. The top tax rate has been cut from 60% to 35%, while a broad range of special exemptions has been eliminated. In the same egalitarian vein, the country's sugar and coconut monopolies, long in the hands of Marcos cronies, have been disbanded. The world price paid for copra, or coconut meat, has increased 250% in the past year; thanks to trust busting, money that once went to monopolists now goes to farmers. In the effort to purge Marcos-style cronyism from the economy, scores of nonperforming public...
...different, but successful vein is the title track. Here, the jerky, sporadic guitar chords suggest the premium-fueled rockabilly licks of former X guitarist Billy Zoom, while Dando chants out some direct but not inane lyrics: "We got problems we can't solve. It's enough to make you want to hate your friends." It's not the most charitable sentiment but it is honest...
...resounding negation. Mrs. Sorken Presents, presented by the A.R.T. at the Hasty Pudding Theater as part of the New Stages series, is, Durang's first new produced work since his autobiographical Marriage of Bette and Boo closed in New York last year. Unfortunately, he has left behind the rich vein of cultural and personal material he has tapped for ten years, and instead turned to parody and cheap laughs, quite appropriate, at least, for the Pudding stage...