Word: downbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screenwriters concede that they massaged some facts for dramatic effect. To offset the downbeat reality of Andy's premature death, for example, they took a successful Carnegie Hall show from early in Kaufman's career and recast it as his last hurrah before succumbing to cancer. Several girlfriends were combined into a composite character, played by Courtney Love, and a few other liberties were taken as well. But Kaufman's life remains familiar to those who best know it. "Facts, schmacts, they made him honest," says Bill Zehme, who spent six years researching Kaufman for his comprehensive new book Lost...
Starting with the downbeat of the first movement of the symphony, though, critique becomes superfluous. Under Cortese's expert, if nervous, direction, the orchestra sailed confidently through the misty opening, the playful hints of the "Ode to Joy" theme to come, the fiery and furious scherzo, the graceful sweeping themes in the violins, the lyrical woodwind solos. The opening movements were filled with as much mystery and grandeur and promise as they ever were...
...Black is just one of a string of hits this year that has enabled Sony Pictures (Columbia, TriStar) to fly past $1 billion in U.S. box-office sales in record time. In music, Sony's record division continues to churn out profits, even though the industry is downbeat. Sony's PlayStation game player has blown away Nintendo. And Sony still sells $23.28 billion worth of audio-video equipment. Its second quarter was a monster, with sales rising 20.6% to $13.6 billion and income rising 60% to $464 million, from the same quarters...
...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? How can you be so negative...
...rest of the instruments. Though "Hide Out" doesn't win any awards for complexity, Buttercup's pop sensibility and devotion to melody are apparent in the song's well-structured design and focus on vocals. "Hide Out" doesn't get in the way of itself. From the first downbeat, this is a rocking tune; Lech's drums propel it all the way through, but he stays restrained and doesn't overplay. Throughout Love, he plays with an acute sensitivity to dynamics and melody. tivity to dynamics and melody...