Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Practical problems make a constitutional amendment a poor instrument for austerity-mongers. Nonetheless, national polls show that about two-thirds of the country favors one. California sent a wave of tax-cutting and spending cutbacks rippling across the states last year, and Americans apparently want it to sweep through Washington as well. Of course, nobody answers the question of how states could balance their budgets without the billions of dollars in aid the federal government hands them each year. People know only that inflation hurts, and conservative economists and groups like the National Taxpayers Union tell them that federal deficit...
...Hancock introduced a tremendously ambitious musical innovation when he first used the Sennheiser Vocoder VSM. The four-part electronic keyboard takes the human voice and synthesizes it to sound exactly like a musical instrument. Incredible results characterized Sunlight, the first album to use the VSM and one of the top jazz discs of last year. The synthesizer sound most closely resembles "You Got the Love" by Rufus and Chaka Khan, a popular track back...
...assembly, in short, is very good at passing resolutions. The problem is that a mere resolution is an impotent instrument for changing University policy. Just as a student listing demands on the steps of University Hall can be ignored by those behind its closed doors, so were these resolutions registered in The Crimson and then promptly ignored by University officials...
Jarreau sings with a flavor. Like Rushen, his voice is an instrument, but unlike most artists, Jarreau pronounces the words in the lyrics to fake an instrumental beat. For an example of this intricate style, listen to "Thinkin' About...
...ever noticed the contradictions of the two sides of the myth--why a woman who is Mother Earth would willfully castrate her sons, and why a pillar of strength would allow herself to be an instrument of degradation--is the subject of another 200-page treatise. Suffice it to say that the image has remained unquestioned even, as Wallace points out, by the occasional black woman writer or sociologist. Not only is the image inaccurate, according to the author, it is lethal...