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...people are hell-bent on voting for Nader, they might as well not ruin the country by electing George W. Bush again,” Frank said...
...Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards have telephoned; and Kerry dropped in on the editors one day in September, despite a sore throat that had forced him to cancel a campaign appearance. "We're deficit hawks from way back," says Curtin. "So both sides have bent over backwards to give us access." The paper's choice, like the election, is still a toss-up. --By Michael Duffy
...This Temporary Life,” Gibbard mentioned that the song was featured on the recently released Future Soundtrack for America charity compilation. Between songs, Gibbard also urged the audience to vote in the coming election and stressed the importance of being active and making a change. His political bent has previously come to the fore; in a recent Morphizm.com interview Gibbard said, “I think art and politics are directly related to each other, and people that deny the cross-influence are kidding themselves.” Additionally, Chris writes a regular column for the politically interested...
...romping “Kinky Afro” without bothering with any introduction. “Son, I’m thirty / I only went with your mother cause she’s dirty,” Shaun Ryder enters, immediately launching listeners into the Mondays’ bent, polluted world, where joyous “Yippee-yippee-yi-yi-yay!”s stolen from Patti LaBelle are followed by “I had to crucify some brother today!” Properly indoctrinated, we progress through a surreal encounter with the police (“God?...
...absurdity—which has little basis in a culture where ballroom isn’t taboo—in the easy comedy and gentle camp of a date movie. After an hour and a half of marination, what comes out of the oven is something turgid and weirdly bent out of shape...