Word: hookings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will not go away. Five high-ranking FBI officials, including former Deputy Director Larry Potts, were suspended two weeks ago because the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into whether they were part of a cover-up after the siege. An early FBI report let everyone off the hook, both at the scene and at FBI headquarters. Another resulted in disciplines but is now considered flawed (Potts, for example, was censured but was later promoted to deputy director). More recent inquiries by the Justice Department have been harsher, full of complaints about stonewalling and deadly and unconstitutional changes...
...failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' former business partner, for political purposes. Reason: the lawyer said doing so would please RTC head Jack Ryan and other senior officials. "There are answers they would be happier about, you know, because it would get them, you know, off the hook, you know, and that would be about Whitewater." Ratan says: "What the Republicans are trying to show is that where politicians are concerned, people are treated very differently...
...listening to such songs is another matter). This summer the performers who are creating the most erotically cathartic music are the male vocal group Jodeci, whose new CD is called The Show, the After-Party, the Hotel, and the female quartet Xscape, with a new album called Off the Hook. Love songs aren't enough for these groups; they sing lust songs, exploring sweaty emotions rather than sweet ones. Their songs aren't designed to shock listeners, like Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music. "My mom asks...
Xscape's Off the Hook, by contrast, is an album of unconnected, though highly agreeable, songs. Who Can I Run To, the CD's best number, is so immediately likable you might swear you had heard it before (and you might be right--the song was originally performed by the Jones Girls in the '70s). While Jodeci's songs are often about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing...
...sign of a civilization's slippage is the ease with which it blurs the line between tragedy and farce. Consider Justin Cartwright's Masai Dreaming (Random House; 287 pages; $23), a novel about the making of a Hollywood adventure movie with a Holocaust hook. The satirical possibilities are unnerving. Spectacular East African scenery, colorful colonials and free-range tribesmen, with the Final Solution worked in. How about Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts...