Word: dourness
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...Tupac Shakur, who had been feuding with Bad Boy, the killing sparked speculation that the two incidents could be linked. Now Combs, 26, has re-emerged with his first solo album, No Way Out. It's an uneven work--the piano-driven Do You Know? flashes with brilliance, the dour Young G's slogs in gangsterism--but it has already generated two No. 1 singles. In his music studios in New York City, Combs talked with music critic Christopher John Farley...
Joaquin Bermeo brought a decisively hip style of voting to last week's remarkable election in Mexico. As a dour procession of villagers strode to the polls in San Andres Calpan, southeast of Mexico City, Bermeo, 21, rode up on a neon-colored bicycle. Wearing a fringed vest and oversize rainbow-colored sunglasses, he swaggered into a booth to mark the first ballot of his life--and step into the vanguard of a democratic revolution. No way, he said, would he vote for the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico virtually unchallenged since 1929. "Every week...
Austin, a specialty-paper salesman from Chicago, wants to stay married to the perceptive and unusually attractive Barbara while vigorously pursuing a dour and uncompliant Parisian named Josephine. Furious, Barbara refers to her straying mate as what could euphemistically be called the lowest part of the digestive system. Josephine calls her suitor a damned fool after he takes her young son to a park without permission. Unattended, little Leo wanders off and is stripped by older boys. Austin's humiliation is compounded by newspaper accounts alleging that he might be a child molester...
...once, a movie knows how to use its stars. That's important, because, on one level, Face/Off is a comedy about acting--Really Big Acting. Cage, who must have been taking Christopher Walken lessons, is spooky-nuts as Castor, then wonderfully poignant as Sean. And Travolta, after shucking his dour FBI persona, shows a gaily dangerous side as Castor. He's a charming, reckless slime...
...first female Secretary of State, however, has been careful to cultivate other men whose help she needs. "It makes a big difference...if you can get on a first name basis with a foreign minister," Albright told TIME. She has exchanged a dozen letters and phone calls with usually dour Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, who now greets her with flowers when she flies to Moscow. The two even share private jokes. During one of their first meetings, Albright recounted that she learned that her Georgetown house was infested with termites. Now, whenever Primakov's aides try to quibble over...