Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banks really do pose a threat to the public, then Canadian consumers should have long ago begun chaffing under the weight of this market structure. But they haven't. The reason is simple: the Canadian banking system is just better than that of the U.S. For example, service charges are lower in Canada than in the U.S. As a result, Canadian banks are forced to rely much more heavily on net interest income as a source of profits...
...last week, in one of those apparent miracles of the late 20th century--like the end of the cold war and the surrender of apartheid in South Africa--some of the awful weight of that Irish history was lifted. The governments of Britain and Ireland and the key political leaders of the warring factions in Northern Ireland, with major assistance from Bill Clinton and former Senator George Mitchell, agreed to replace terrorism with democracy and to let the people of the North decide their own ultimate fate...
Indeed, according to Page, many of the songs on Walking into Clarksdale were recorded in "one or two" takes. The pair were going for spontaneity, and the effort paid off. Despite the weight of their history--bands like Pearl Jam have borrowed from them, movies like This Is Spinal Tap have parodied them--their Walking into Clarksdale is a relatively loose-limbed, unencumbered affair. There are no sprawling Stairway to Heaven-type pieces here, only songs that are for the most part relatively modest and direct. This isn't hard rock, but it is solid...
...baritone, Smith has drawn obvious comparisons to Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman. But whereas those singers can sometimes sound mesmerized by the sheer resonance of their own vocal cords, Smith has a more nimble sense of phrasing--he's rich yet light, the flourless chocolate cake of a Weight Watcher's dream. On the Art Blakey tune Moanin' he lets loose with a paradoxically graceful abandon that would make a silky shouter like Joe Williams proud...
...would anybody choose to stage this play in this first place? Well, evidently because it's possible to have a lot of fun with it. Without the calcifying weight of canonical adulation weighing you down, you can take the interpretation in any direction you please. And if the text is, by consensus, total crap to begin with--well, then, elaborating on it couldn't possibly hurt...