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...other half of The Raven, however, is songs, the best of which are a continuation of the weary romantic journey Reed has been on since his Velvet Underground days. None are verse-chorus-verse accessible, but Perfect Day and the fiery duet I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum), with the Blind Boys of Alabama, prove that Reed is still attuned to the knocking on his own chamber door. "One thinks of what one hopes to be," he sings mournfully, "and then faces reality." --By Josh Tyrangiel
Edwards' loser love affair kicks off with Six O'Clock News, a nearly great song about a pregnant woman who watches as her lover is shot dead during a police standoff. Read the chorus--"I tried to come clean but I guess it's no use/Your face is all over the six o'clock news/They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools/I can't even get inside"--and you will pine for the good cheer of a Morrissey album. But Six O'Clock News opens with a wry guitar riff, and Edwards' upbeat, breathy vocal comes through surprisingly...
...President sounded so exasperated last week when he called the rising volume of objections from abroad, even as he was jockeying his troops into ready position, the "rerun of a bad movie." Surely, he snapped, "our friends have learned lessons from the past." Yet for a growing chorus of other folks, not least of all America's foremost allies, those lessons are no easy guide to the future. Accusing the U.S. of needless "impatience," French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin seemed to speak for much of the international community last week when he declared, "We see no justification right...
...BACHELOR Three years ago, Cris Judd was just a face in the chorus line, working as a backup dancer on videos and concert tours. Now he's known to everyone in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it's for being the man who served as a way station between Puff Daddy and Ben Affleck. Judd met JENNIFER LOPEZ on the set of her video Love Don't Cost a Thing, when she was on the rebound from Puffy. The two wed and separated within a year, and just months later Lopez became engaged to Affleck. The Judd/Lopez divorce was scheduled to become final...
...disloyal and shady connotation," wrote a Connecticut reader. "Surely you could have found a more kindly word to describe what they did." A Los Angeles woman concurred: "Calling them whistle-blowers sold these women short and subtly undermined the example of conviction and courage they set." Joining the chorus was a man from New York State: "The headline did little justice to their contribution to society. How about calling them just plain courageous...