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This 18-track gem will pry open your mind and insert all of the vulgarity, hatred and violence that Ice-T carries around from his "formative" years in s.c. L.A. It begins disarmingly--a little skit where Ice-T approaches a parked police car to ask for assistance--but the ditty, and its ensuing musical accompaniment, "Body Count's in the House," plummet to the horrifying depths of police brutality and Ice-T's vision of revenge...
...picked up some other nicknames from the family, including the creative "Joe-Nathan." While 'Joe-Nathan" was my dad's attempt at a little humor, my baby sister presented me with a gem of a name-- "Ga-lia-ga"--because she couldn't pronounce "Jonathan. " You go figure the similarity. We've tried for the last 15 years...
...which the United States has gone towards national socialism," while another, Arthur Hugh Jameson, referring to the Wagner Act, wrote that "a labor dictatorship has been created" and could only hope "that the American people will revert back to the type of their ancestors and recapture that priceless gem of Liberty, which is never appreciated until it is lost...
Harvard is fortunate to have such a gem of a church in her midst--indeed right in her own front yard--and Harvard and Memorial Church are fortunate and blessed to have Gomes at the helm of such an energetic enterprise. His scholarship and values are unquestionable; his delight in and kindness toward everyone, equally, is legend...
Guys and Dolls offers a nonpareil text and score, and a creative team so impressive that before the first preview, a year-long national tour starting in September had already been booked around the U.S. But the $5.5 million staging of composer-lyricist Frank Loesser's comic gem will be hard pressed to equal the emotional impact of his Most Happy Fella, telling of an inept but earnest quest for love by a hulking, homely immigrant farmer in California's Napa Valley. The book, also by Loesser, is intermittently burdened with the same irritating cuteness and insincerity that lumbers Crazy...