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Arrested Development has an angry, urgent side too, as in the funky, up- tempo cut Fishin' 4 Religion, an attack on black religious leaders. Baptist churches, Speech complains, "don't do a damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds...
...there they were, two perfectly coiffed, freshly scrubbed, oh-so-earnest fortysomething white Baptist Southerners in blue suits and ties, ignoring the sweat on their faces (as did the adoring blond wives at their sides), two self-confident moderates proclaiming themselves The Answer, The Change. They will rescue us from our malaise, says Clinton, because Americans don't really hate politics, we are just "fed up with failure" -- and failure is decidedly not what these two survivors are about. How could it be? Clinton and Gore lust for the pinnacle, but their motives are pure: "I tell you truthfully," said...
...with a cast of 24, is also just the sort of thing that unnerves opponents of the National Endowment for the Arts, which helped underwrite it. The title character's dance of the seven veils, performed by Sheryl Lee, is intensely erotic, authentically nude. The beheading of John the Baptist at Salome's behest, after he has thwarted her lust, is sickening yet hypnotic -- and is based on biblical-era chronicles. The pervasive homosexual passion is faithful not only to Wilde but to the culture he portrays. Pacino presides with calculated distraction and studied effeminacy that drop away...
...department-store sales clerk. His family moved to Tucson while he was a teenager. There he devoured his mother's right-wing political tracts and joined the John Birch Society. After studying at a Colorado seminary under Kenneth Goff, a minister with anti-Semitic views, Robb became a Baptist minister, opened a print shop and started publishing his own right-wing tracts and pushing white-supremacist causes. In 1979 he joined Duke's Klan (one of many different Klan organizations), and soon moved up the ranks. Shortly after Duke stepped down as Imperial Wizard in 1980 to found the National...
...about the landscape trying to use "family values" to shore up President Bush's eroding base among conservatives and divert attention from peskier concerns such as the deficit, the Vice President must beat the populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used to call the "nattering nabobs of negativism" 20 years back, was still undermining the good...