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...their only debate. Her giddy campaign staff, keeping score in the audience of a Dallas hotel ballroom, figured she had made 10 good points to his every one. "I thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with crabgrass]. Everyone around me thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with striped bass]," Richards told a Gore strategist recently. But the voters were keeping a tally sheet of their own, Richards recalled, and "it turned out he had kicked my [rhymes with bus pass...
...their only debate; her giddy campaign staff, taking score in the audience of a Dallas hotel ballroom, figured she had made 10 good points to his every one. "I thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with crabgrass]. Everyone around me thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with striped bass]," Richards told a Gore strategist recently. But the voters were keeping a tally sheet of their own, Richards recalled, and "it turned out he had kicked my [rhymes with bus pass...
...Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating the frenetic Miami drum-and-bass sound to weave lascivious sexual fantasies that got local authorities screaming to shut them down...
Producer Malcolm Burn hews closely to the gospel according to Daniel (Lanois, that is, producer of Harris' previous studio effort, "Wrecking Ball") - murky layers of distorted guitars weaving in and out, punctuated by deep, throbbing bass and percussion evocative of the rituals of some future tribe. But while a distant, ominous pulse throughout sets an appropriately brooding atmosphere, the effect is eventually undermined by overuse and a lack of melodic variety that guest collaborators such as Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark don't do much to alleviate...
Contemporary writers on the American environment, Rick Bass, for example, worship in the church of Muir: "Must we break everything that is special to us, or sacred--unknown, and holy--into halves, and then fourths, and then eighths? What happens to us when all the sacred, all the whole, is gone--when there is no more whole?" Montana evokes for Thomas McGuane "a terrific evangelical silence." Faith is by definition irrational--it is, in fact, a little like fire...