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Unfortunately, "Old Flame," an excellent tune, is also the shortest song on the album. Although keeping songs short and sweet is an admirable goal, this album is hardly a goldmine of memorable melodies, and The Church could ill afford to abandon this one so abruptly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Look Mom No Head | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...woman's clothing is a more complex matter. Necklines are low, low, low: no turtlenecks here. The dresses frequently seem inappropriately bright for the historical period. The acidic green gown on the cover of Frontier Flame...the obnoxiously fuschia dress pictured on Lawless...the electric, leathery blue gown shown on The Spitfire... probably anachronistic, but sexy...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...original French title Feu la Cendre would seem to be untranslatable as well, but Elvis Costello came close when he lamented "you're less tender and more tinder" in "Only Flame in Town...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Derrida's Cinders | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...power and majesty -- even as we abhor aspects of the man. These aspects, however, are as dead as Wagner, buried with him behind Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth. It is the music that lives on. The whole world realizes this. The Israelis should too. They should see that the flame that still burns so brightly gives out light, not heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of Wagner -- Again | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...fading, the President and his advisers seem to have undergone an overnight conversion that was actually about a year in the making. The shift has an unmistakable back-to-the-future quality about it. During Bush's first two years in office, his aides sheltered the free-market flame by batting away several internal proposals to put federal money on the line for emerging technologies. Several senior officials who tried to steer federal help to strategic American industries were quietly relieved of their duties (most notably, former Pentagon technologist Craig Fields). Led by the free-trade triumvirate of Sununu, chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy Now This Idea Is -- Shh! -- O.K. | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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