Word: smoothly
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...Parkinson’s disease is in the brains of patients themselves. As the illness worsens, brain tissue becomes clogged with a protein muck that includes a substance called alpha-synuclein. No one knows exactly what alpha-synuclein does, but it’s believed to play a role in the smooth transmission of nerve signals. When the substance clumps, it can’t do the work it was designed to do, leading to neuron damage, loss of the neurotransmitter dopamine, and eventually to the familiar shakiness of such well-known Parkinson’s sufferers as Janet Reno and Muhammed...
...Martin's last album, Sound Loaded's production is somewhat overdone, and the vocals are often overwhelmed by the surging instrumentation. But through it all, Martin has a charm that's hard to deny. The women in his lyrics may be rough and ready, but Martin is always smooth...
...form as a producer, laying down beats for each number that are spare but never simplistic and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs a passage on the track Redbull) and serious statements. A section on I Can't Go to Sleep laments, "Somebody raped our women/murdered our babieshit us with the crack and guns/in the early...
...this has been the way you were obliged to play the game. From a social point of view, innovation has been a case of having to take the occasionally rough with the generally smooth, partly because of the interactive nature of invention described above, and partly because for centuries we have lived in a directionless culture of scarcity. At no time was there either need or resources available to share the intellectual wealth beyond a select few. There was no point, for instance, in teaching literacy to the masses without an adequate number of printing presses to provide them with...
...forewarned that Kravitz's lyrics are profoundly uninspired at best ("You make my life complete/You make me feel so sweet"). But he makes up for it with strong vocals, great melodies and silky-smooth harmonies. In "Let Love Rule," Kravitz's voice is so enjoyable it takes you a while to realize that "Love transcends all space and time/And love can make a little child smile" is nonsensical schlock. And as you start to sing along, you might realize that you don't mind so much. B -Myung...