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Lyrically, Tone Soul Evolution deals with the timeless topics of pop music: love, doubt, betrayal, hope--in other words, the usual. The only difference is that, as befits the '90s, the subjects of songs are often fairly ambiguous. "Seems So" details the story of an eerie night-time UFO-ish episode, without revealing much of what actually happened. "Find Our Way" mentions a relationship and its past, but doesn't allow the listener to find out anything other than "Maybe we'll find our way." But Schneider's sardonic, often ambiguous, delivery allows potential cheese-o lines like "Headed home...
...days at Harvard before my leave of absence, I made a sincere plea that the inanity of the annual Mather House sophomore outing be replaced with a more meaningful day of community service that might bring the entire house together, in the process working against some of the clique-ish isolation that for me was nearly fatal. The Masters rejected the proposal, taking a stance that has come to typify the University reaction as a whole: rather than acknowledging a problem of far-ranging scope, Harvard prefers to insulate itself by writing off each death, each breakdown, as an isolated...
Chaplin, the Hugh Grant-ish twinkie from The Truth About Cats & Dogs, makes an admirable about-face to become this brooding, swanky manipulator. As in his previous film, however, he projects a wheezy lack of mystery: a bad move in a role once played by Montgomery Clift. Finney and Smith are, as always, convincing, but they show no new sides of their prodigious talents. Smith's Lavinia, in particular, is a near-transplant of her kooky chaperone from A Room With a View...
...when he was born, 26 years ago, in Boston, Mass. But the photographer wants a bit more attitude, a bit more of the old Calvin Klein pinup Marky Mark. How 'bout stripping and covering his crotch with his hands? "No!" yells Wahlberg's manager, the intrusive, Jerry McGuire-ish Steve Levinson. "I knew I needed to be here!" Later, Wahlberg is asked if he would have stripped. "Sure," he says. "Ask me to jump out the window, and I'd do that too." And he fakes a dive through the nearest window...
...both sides of the Atlantic. Be Here Now is not a particularly smart or involving album, but then neither was Morning Glory. That previous album's charms consisted of four sprightly, tuneful songs--including Don't Look Back in Anger and Wonderwall--and a lot of latter-day Beatle-ish attitude. The members of Oasis, led by volatile singer Liam Gallagher and his songwriting, guitar-playing brother Noel, cut their hair like the Beatles, sometimes use the same kinds of guitars and amplifiers the Beatles used, and even try to write songs like the Beatles with Hey Jude-like...