Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their ammunition: the purported romance with Gennifer Flowers, controversies over his draft record and personal investments, allegations of favors to his mother and other allies. Indeed, there was something downright unseemly about the armies of reporters tripping over one another in Arkansas last spring, scrambling to dig up dirt on Clinton. But that was when polls had the Democrat third in a three-way race. As campaign reporters are quick to point out, the cheerier coverage and splashier play started when Clinton surged in the polls. Says David Lauter, who covers Clinton for the Los Angeles Times: "When people...
...first released single, Digging in the Dirt, with its power guitar riffs, Gabriel explores his "dark" side, as he menacingly barks orders to a lover in the chorus. Moments after his anger subsides, he exposes his vulnerability, pleading, "Stay with me, I need support." Perhaps nowhere else does he so eagerly long for an end to pain and for the remedy of a lasting relationship than on Love to be Loved and Washing of the Water. In the former, Gabriel confesses his fears of loneliness over a moody, mid-tempo track, singing, "When my self-esteem is sinking, I like...
...boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...
...album's first single, "Digging in the Dirt," is about anything, it's about lust and unabating pain. "Something in me, dark and sticky/ All the time it's getting strong," Gabriel sings, accompanied by djembe, tama, surdu, keyboards and more conventional rock instruments. The pain shows up in the chorus: "I'm digging in the dirt/ To find the places I got hurt...
...Digging in the Dirt," with its abrupt mood changes and exotic instrumentation, might seem an unusual choice for a first single. But there's little other radio-friendly material here. Those seeking "In Your Eyes II" might not want to fork over eleven bucks for Us. The tender "Come Talk to Me," Upbeat "Kiss That Frog" and funky "Steam" may find commercial success, but "Fourteen Black Paintings" and "Only Us," the album's big clunkers, probably won't. Most of Us is well-crafted, but unaccessible; it doesn't fit easily into any of the categories--rock, pop and alternative...