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...Berlusconi's eight-month stint as Prime Minister in 1994, Letta joined his political staff but not his Forza Italia. Today, Letta remains aloof from party politics. One senior Italian diplomat who has known Letta since the 1970s calls him "a perfect example of soft power." He brings a velvet touch to a government known for pugilism. Enzo Carra, an opposition Parliament member who worked under Letta in the 1970s at the Rome daily Il Tempo, says he is universally respected for his gentilezza and his ability to feel the pulse of Italy's moderate conservative heartland. "Letta...
...much so, in fact, that the actual 50-year-old standards on the album, like Billy Myles’ jazzy “My Love Is,” fit in very snugly. That track is pure velvet, an upright-bass-supported masterpiece that channels pure melancholy joy. I’m a sucker for good lyrics, and Myles’ words are simple, desperate and content all at the same time. When Golightly croons perfect lines like “My love is a deep blue sea / So deep that I’ll never be free...
...friend Mollie’s house. We’d discovered the Sixties at the same time. She had started listening to the Beatles at my urging, and then had turned to music that was more “hard core” to us: Janis Joplin, The Velvet Underground and Dylan. Although she too had found Dylan through a female crooner (hers was Joan Baez), she wouldn’t accept my rejection of Bob’s voice. “After a while,” she said, “it feels like an old friend...
Despite their sudden disappearance from the landscape, their long-term importance has remained intact: the trademark sound of soaring, pedaled, yet restrained guitar and whining/majestic vocals over a solid foundation of simplistic drumming and basswork defined the style of the nth generation descendants of the Velvet Underground, and in turn helped to inspire the shoegaze and slowcore movements that were so fruitful in the early and mid ’90s. To this day they remain one of Boston’s most famous indie exports...
...tune (which incidentally shares a rhythm with the Velvet Underground’s monolithic and massively influential “Sister Ray”) came across as an averaging of the band’s entire output as well as input, merging both their old and new styles with those of their progenitors. By the end every eye was transfixed on Wareham: the past and the future were both on stage at once, and it was beautiful...