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...first song on the album and the only one you'll hear on the radio, opens with a couple of raging guitars screeching in each channel. The ensuing kick-ass chord progression, penetrating drums and wailing guitars guide Moore's voice for just over two minutes. "I've been around the world a million times," he admits, "And all men are slime...
...first blush, Bush's plan strikes a chord: few who deal with the government regularly have a good word for those they encounter. On reflection, though, the President's scheme is a heartless swipe at a defenseless group of dedicated civil servants, designed to capture the knee-jerk support of an economically strapped electorate. "It may not be good policy," concedes a Bush adviser, "but it's damn good politics...
...Clinton campaign is a kind of dazed humility at the wondrous workings of fate. Says campaign manager David Wilhelm, who originally dreamed up the notion of putting the Clinton campaign on wheels: "I'd love to be able to say that we knew it would strike this chord. It just isn't true...
...scabs" in union vernacular -- to deliver editions printed in Canada. Although just 15% (about the national average) of the Pittsburgh work force is unionized, the company's use of fill-ins -- as well as an outside security force dressed in military-style uniforms and combat boots -- struck the wrong chord in a city that's marking the centennial of the 1892 Homestead Strike, in which 10 steelworkers were shot by Pinkerton security guards at Andrew Carnegie's factory just outside town. Readers burned papers, and advertisers displayed signs proclaiming that they were not doing business with the newspaper company. Even...
...just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes, birdlike ululations, soaring vocalises and stylized dances, Atlas is the apotheosis of Monk's decades-long quest for artless simplicity...