Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes for a repetitious read and a disgruntled customer. Stewart's off-the-wall and out-of-his-mind stories, whether they make you giggle or glare, must be applauded for their uncontested originality. Yes, we've all thought that Bill Gates must have made some pact with the devil. But few of us have sat down and written it in old-style folklore form entitled "The Devil and William Gates," in which ol' Billy swindles Lucifer himself by reporting his credit card and car stolen, and changing the Devil's fingerprints to match those of a San Diego crack...
...know it's a meta, meta world we live in when even Bill Clinton is asking the public to believe that "The media did it." The blame for the Lewinsky mess, says the President of the United States, lies with circulation-driven newsmongers and that devil Kenneth W. Starr. Painting himself as the victim of the media, Clinton claims that he is the one who has been wronged...
...collapses against the Reds and Braves earlier this decade. And the Phillies and Royals shrugged aside their postseason ineptitude in the late seventies. The Brewers, Padres and San Francisco Giants have yet to win the Fall Classic. The Mariners, Angels, Rockies, Expos, Astros, Rangers, and (of course) Diamondbacks and Devil Rays have yet to reach the Fall Classic...
Chris Isaak's latest landscape, Speak of the Devil, seems like familiar territory. It uses some very well-travelled roads, yet manages to not make it very far. You can feel the gears shift as the music gets louder or picks up the tempo, but somehow you aren't making any progress. While the music is pleasant and comforting enough, Isaak never takes the listener anywhere...
...lyrics, guitar phrases and song titles all run together, as if Speak of the Devil might just be a bunch of variations on a simple theme...