Word: drums
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...backwoods antique store. Now the vase has a few cracks in it, which both prove its age and add to its value. Her voice's tensile strength, born of suffering and surviving, makes her not just an interpreter of pain but a witness to it, as in Bang the Drum Slowly, about her late father, or the title tune, about a childhood friend with a run of bad luck ("One thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em/ You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom"). Her glottal throb on these dozen tunes...
This is what life is like inside the oil drum. Each morning Bush wakes up in its dim light and tries to poke his head out to the world. It starts with a "message of the day," which he tries to eke past a press corps that, with polls tightening and a real race going, isn't letting much pass before they bring up what they want to talk about. Which usually results in a pounding and a walloping, distracting and disorienting the candidate...
Bang, Bazooom, Boing went the questions off the tin sides. The Hector family watched the hectoring in a daze, Brenda holding on to her young daughter like a bag of flour. And when you're in the drum you can't hear yourself speak, which was on display again today as the governor repeatedly referred to the "sub-lim-in-able" message in his advertising. Earlier, Bush had denied a Vanity Fair report that he might have dyslexia...
...show in New York City for the first time this fall, for the Italian line Callaghan, has already become a darling of local stylists. Who can blame them? It's hard not to get excited by a fashion designer who so resolutely marches to the beat of his own drum...
Dick Cheney was supposed to be talking about education, but he's been having a tough week. So on the first all-on-message day in some time - while George Bush beat the drum on college aid in Pennsylvania and Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (still traveling together) hit health care in Oregon - Cheney arrived Wednesday in Atlanta with his new direction, an easy one for the ex-defense secretary: bash the military. The Clinton/Gore military, that...