Word: blackbird
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bird! It's a plane! No, it's Suzuki's Hayabusa (Japanese for falcon), said to be the fastest "street-legal" sport bike ever made. Its 1,300-cc engine and aerodynamic design enable the bike to reach 186 m.p.h., leaving the current champ, the Honda Blackbird, in the dust. What good is having a vehicle that can go three times the speed limit? Ask any guy with a Ferrari...
...glistening seascapes and fragrant, ripe fruits. The prime difficulty and import of Stevens' work lies here: his subject is at once immanent and idealized, both a radiant presence and a metaphysical abstraction. In a similar fashion, Stevens' best known shorter poems, among them "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" and "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself," concern themselves with the poet's subjective experience while invoking such austere, resonant imagery as to leave the reader little room to doubt the poet's constructed world...
Country music, even in the depths, is essentially Christian: it sees a happy ending, if not in this life, then in eternity. Death is a "sweet bluebonnet spring" ("When we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wings/ And we will fly away to heaven") in the gorgeous remake of her Gulf Coast Highway, a duet with Hootie's Darius Rucker. His gruff baritone and Griffith's twangy soprano soar apart, then join in double rapture. The instrumentation--string quintet, Floyd Cramerish rolling piano, electric slide guitar--makes the song a pretty little anthology of pop's fine...
...Microsoft Network feels like sneaking into a giant shopping mall under construction: lots of nooks and crannies but nothing to see yet. For now, Microsoft is happy to direct people out to the Internet, via its somewhat clunky browser, the Internet Explorer. Sometime next year Microsoft will release Blackbird, a so-called developer's tool that could attract content providers by giving them the wherewithal to create multimedia pages that rival anything available on the Internet today. An even bigger plus: Microsoft will handle billing on behalf of its content partners, the merchants who will set up shop there. That...
...thorough knowledge of the jazz canon--from Cole Porter to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis--with a rich harmonic sense and a carefully reined iconoclasm. On his debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck of cards. The effect is to make sentimental and familiar numbers sound strangely renewed. "There's really no point in covering standards...