Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt. "I knew I couldn't fit into a Whitney Houston mode," says the laid-back Larrieux. Instead, her voice evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead. The songs here are similarly subdued and flow casually along, like the wistful Hey U and the jaunty Ride. Occasionally, however, they take on harsh subjects such as crack addiction, as on the softly funky 10 Minute High. "Everybody tells her to stop...
WHAT DOES THE N.F.L. STAND for? That's a question pro football fans are asking in Cleveland, Houston, Chicago, Tampa, Phoenix, Seattle and Cincinnati--all cities whose professional football teams are threatening to leave. It's the same question once asked by fans in Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland and New York--all cities whose teams did abandon them in the 1980s and '90s. No Fixed Location? No Fan Loyalty? National Flux League...
...Houston, who confesses that she never finished McMillan's novel ("I kind of got halfway through"), sees the film as a breakthrough for the image of black women because it presents them both as professionals and as caring mothers. And she defends Exhale against charges it's too tough on black men: "How come men can tell stories about women the way they want to tell them, and then when women tell stories, it's male bashing...
...Houston is getting her movie career on a fast track, she also seems to be trying to get her personal life back in order. After their separation, she and Brown are back together (with two-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina) and bickering mostly about who made the first move to reconcile. "You know you did," Brown says confidently to Houston. "You know you called me." She shoots back, "Who started calling who and sending who cards...
...Houston admits the marriage has been rocky, but says the media have overplayed their troubles: "I could tell you about some fouled-up marriages, but it ain't my business. They want to mess with us all the time . I married the brother I wanted to be with, and [the media] didn't understand it or like it, so therefore they tried to f---- with me; white America tried to f---- with me. They thought, Hard boy, good girl; it doesn't work...