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...DOES A SINGER AS TALented as Mariah Carey continue to limit herself to churning out generic pop songs? Her self-titled debut displayed great promise, showcasing her gospel energy and vocal range on such hit songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. But Carey's third full album, Music Box, seems perfunctory and almost passionless . . . and that raises a lot of other questions...
...great and ones that are unlistenable. The unpredictability of true talent is one reason why Top 40 radio often prefers the talentless. They're not taking chances, so they're easier to program, easier to manipulate. To be sure, there are some great moments on Music Box. The gospel-flavored Anytime You Need a Friend demonstrates Carey's vocal power, although too fleetingly. And the title cut is one of Carey's loveliest songs to date, with her voice humming and hovering above a tinkling, childlike melody: "And your love/ breaks away the clouds surrounding me." Such moments...
Joel's gem is the sleepytime title tune. Its consonant-poppin' lyric charts a land where pop merges with gospel, black embraces white, dread is absolved by belief -- in God, in dreams, in the rolling sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...
...demand that doctors always intervene, or should they set limits? And does it make sense for a society to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an almost certainly doomed effort while millions of Americans go begging for the basics of health care and while the government preaches the gospel of cost containment? Where do love, responsibility and justice...
...White House adviser Paul Begala is working on a speech to be broadcast from the Oval Office this week. More than 20 senior officials have been installed in a "war room" in the Old Executive Office Building, where, aided by telephones, computers, faxes and printers, they are spreading the gospel of deficit reduction. Cabinet officers and senior officials were scheduled by war-room operatives for radio interviews and courtesy calls on lawmakers. The Democratic National Committee released a 30-second television ad that will run in four states -- Arizona, Nebraska, Nevada and Wisconsin -- blasting the "forces of gridlock" without mentioning...