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...extremely powerful: "What must I do now/be your jester/fight your wars/pimp your women/be your whore/write the same songs I've sung before," wails Smith in anger before he changes venues and launches into a description of the black community as ." ..Wonderful/so beautiful/the ways we try to dull the pain." The lyrics seem almost to flow more like poetry than music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Make This Love `Connection' | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

Store employees have no opinions of the eclectic inventory. Blodgett listlessly declares in a dull monotone, "It makes no difference to me." Further questions send her into retreat behind the "Employees Only" full-gauge double steel door in the corner of the store. Then she talks to the overlord they call "the manager," (an investigation of Blodgett's workplace during her absence reveals a small black box with hundreds of blinking lights, each possibly representing the heartbeat of a co-worker) and essentially disappears...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: shoppin | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...dull red walls of the Kremlin loom large in the center of Moscow as a reminder of this country's powerful Russian past. Yet as one walks away from the Kremlin and down Tverskaya Boulevard--Moscow's main drag--one wonders whether the Kremlin still serves its original purpose. Built as a fortress in the 1150s, it was supposed to protect Moscow from foreign invasion...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: From Russia With Love | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

BILL MAHER The real scandal is that Politically Incorrect has remained so dull when Washington is so wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

Still, Garcia says that for her students"Harvard is such a draw, no matter what it costs."At Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, guidancecounselor Carol Katz agrees that the changes mightnot significantly dull Harvard's competitive edge...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Princeton Boosts Financial Aid Program | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

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