Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This band sees the world in polarities. The answers to life's big questions are always true or false, yes or no -- "all of the above" is not an option. At the start of the album, a booming voice declares, "Right versus wrong, good versus evil, God versus the Devil. Which side you on?" In fact, the listener, swept up in the band's passion and sound, can't help being on Public Enemy's side throughout the record as Chuck takes on the American Patriarchal Military Industrial Racist Complex, Inc. On Hitler Day, he attacks the idea of having...
...Richard was brilliant, honest and forthright," Rosenthal said. "He always played the devil's advocate and he always kept us honest. It will be tough to go on without...
...question the most widely publicized legal proceeding in Tlingit history. In the 750-person lumber and fishing town of Klawock, Alaska, 12 self-proclaimed tribal judges pondered the fate of two young criminals. The "tribal court" had the trappings of authenticity: the hall had been ritually purified with a "devil's club" branch, and some of the judges wore red and black ceremonial blankets and gestured with eagle and raven feathers. But there were abundant reasons for skepticism, both of the tribunal and the sentence it was likely to mete out. Not least of which was its presiding magistrate...
...real reason for refusing to engage in any broad negotiation is emotional. The weight of 35 years of demonizing Castro is not easy to shrug off. Clinton is afraid that Republicans -- and plenty of Democrats -- will scorch him for cozying up to a communist devil. Yet that fear may be exaggerated: the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a powerful voice of conservatives, came out last week in favor of lifting the embargo, arguing that the best way to undermine communist regimes is to open them up to outside goods, exchanges of people and ideas. It worked with the Soviet empire...
Derivative Devil Strikes Again...