From its inception, Beat lent itself to myriad interpretations, but to people like Kerouac, it derived mostly from "beatific".
The truth is that hip-hop has had straight and swung beats since its inception (for classic hip-hop songs that employ "straighter" rhythms, listen to Run-D.M.C.'s "You Be Illin' " or Masta Ace's "Born to Roll").
Under Russell and Conheady, the Smith Barney International Aggressive Growth fund (net assets, $190 million) has posted a 26% compound annualized return since its 1995 inception, beating the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE benchmark by 17 percentage points a year, on average.
For the odd moment, you want to give the Floridian metallers the benefit of the doubt when they try to spice up the dynamics with the occasional blast beat, as in the Inception of the End, or in Dusk Dismantled, when they rip out some straight-up black/death metal.
As he played the new Korn song "Bleeding Out" -- which fuses the loud, grinding guitars and angst-filled vocals that have been a staple of Korn's music since its early-'90s inception with frenetic beats, wobbling bass lines, whooshes of synthesizer and screeching electronic effects -- he sang along to his own vocals, bouncing in his seat enthusiastically.
Mr. Robertson's 25percentt annualized return since his fund's inception in 1980 handily beats the 17.5percentt average annual gains in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, with dividends reinvested, for the period.
Barse responded that Third Avenue, since its inception, has been able to beat the benchmark it uses.
Globalisation, it seems, has not much magnified the natural human propensity to be on the move.While we might think of some cities as the beating hearts of culture since their very inception, the team's results showed otherwise.
An opening piece, "The Inception," rested on an affable funk beat.
Both Inception and The King's Speech beat The Social Network at sheer amount of awards won, at four to The Social Network's three.
