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...wandered in from across the hall. This brave soul was buttoned-up in a simple ensemble he might have purchased at the Gap, in contrast to the alterna-duds others were sporting. Abstaining from the bubbly, he light-heartedly mocked the celebrants with a sarcastic take on a protest chant overheard at an anti-Summers rally. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Larry, Larry, go away!” he shouted. “Larry spits the truth, yo,” he added. –Daniel J. Mandel
...section turns out to be the most interesting part. Gilbert can overcharm at times--she suffers from an addiction to cleverness--but her account of her time in India is beautiful and honest and free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here once you have fully...
...Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears ... George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when...
...power of both albums, and neither the Spanish nor English album achieves full levels of Freudian fixation. On “Vol. II,” Shakira begins with a religious monologue to God on “How Do You Do?” Opening with a Gregorian chant of the “Our Father” and church bells, the song has boundless potential, but abruptly changes into a spiritual pop opus with its haunting combination of Christian prayer, Arabic words, and Hebrew chanting. While the topic’s ambition is commendable, the song lacks...
...Tweedy boldly forces his voice up an octave to declare: “I’d like to thank you all for nothing at all/I’d like to thank you all for nothing” before leading a raucous crowd through a lengthy chant of “Nothing/nothing/nothing” culminating with the cathartic release of “Nothing at all.” Another crowd sing-along on “Shot in the Arm” kicks Tweedy and bassist John Stirratt into vocal overdrive as they shout...