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...given LeAnn Rimes' hit collection of similarly themed material. Higher Ground, for its part, is a little too polite. Streisand's at her best on the track On Holy Ground: her voice scales the song, rising above the piano and the organ and the gospel choir, and at the climax hits a decisive, optimistic end note. She would have done well to have left off the song Tell Him, a duet with Dion that appears on both their albums. Streisand's too good to share billing with Dion. Hopefully, Streisand's next album will be a more fitting showcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: GOING FOR THE RAFTERS | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...came unexpectedly, after "Ted, Just Admit It...": suddenly, after bringing the audience to a climax Jane's Addiction had left the building. People wandered about, waiting for another announcement about some other structural deficiency of the Gosman, but none came. Milling about, the crowd stared at the flowery Tahitian motifs of the stage...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Addiction: Fumbling Toward Ecstasy | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...against her 'fate" drives her to increasingly desperate measures as she attempts to understand and correct what is wrong inside her womb and her "blood." Isolated with her despair, she becomes alienated from her husband and from the rest of her village until her unbearable pain explodes in a climax of sexual and emotional anguish, violence and murder...

Author: By Y. SUSANNAH R. mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dark, Small Magic in a Quiet Space | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Morey is reaching the climax of one of the most prolific receiving careers in the history of the Ivy League. The junior flanker entered Saturday's game leading the nation in reception yards per game (143), third in Ivy League history in career touchdown receptions (24) and sixth in career receiving yards...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Buries Brown, 27 - 10 | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...jokes. In its story lines as well as in fantasy sequences depicting what Ally is thinking, the show edges toward absurdism. That's fine, but when a whole episode is devoted to the consequences of Ally's argument with a woman over a container of Pringles, it shouldn't climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge. (In fact, probably no show should ever climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: WOMAN OF THE YEAR | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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