Word: fervorous
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...poverty and mystical spiritual aspirations of the black Jamaican underclass. His voice sounded like sugarcane but cut like a switchblade. His love songs, like Guava Jelly, Stir It Up and Three Little Birds (included here in a previously unreleased and altogether ravishing alternate version), were lighted with a sexual fervor suggesting that passion itself is a kind of temporary redemption. His political songs, whether metaphorical (I Shot the Sheriff) or straight-out and out-front (War, with its lyric from a speech by Haile Selassie, and still one of the most devastating assaults on racism in all of rock), were...
...know what to do with it. Instead of just isolating a disturbing tendency in pop culture, he is compelled to document it with suspicious statistics, to draw conspiratorial conclusions, to call for a return in spirit to the movies' puritanical Production Code of the 1930s -- all with the fervor of a modern Martin Luther, an angry evangelist determined to nail his 95 theses not on a church door but on a movie marquee. Problem is, he keeps hitting his thumb...
...hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, sung with a suitable military fervor). Some show tunes, though, are overly orchestrated and could do without the distracting backup...
...repeal of the tax increases imposed in the 1990 deficit- reduction deal between Bush and Capitol Hill. That Bush went along with the compromise still rankles many conservatives, though others feel that the deficit would be even worse without it. Weber, who is quitting Congress, mourns the loss of fervor for Reaganomics. "It's discouraging," he says, "how little supply-side sentiment is left among elected Republicans...
...perhaps more characteristic is the fervor in the group's hit single, Tennessee. Here, Speech mourns the loss of two relatives and describes his pilgrimage to his ancestral home in Ripley, Tenn. He revels in his family history and the beauty of the rural surroundings: "((I)) walk the roads my forefathers walked,/ Climb the trees my forefathers hung from./ Ask those trees for all their wisdom,/ . . . He guided me to Tennessee . . . home...