Word: joylessness
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These albums are especially strong testaments to hip hop’s vitality and versatility, to be sure, but their release is business as usual for the artists—uncelebrated, unseen. With stuff like this happening every month, who needs an old, joyless news anchor telling us what not to like...
...whisks) and lots of things one cannot (a back scratcher, a pedestal for a huqqa--hookah, to some--and a conch-shell holder). The show, organized by the Kuwait National Museum and the Met, will also bedazzle London; Cleveland, Ohio; and Houston. Be warned: your preconceptions about a joyless Islam may be shattered by the inscribed royal spinel (all 249.3 carats of it) alone...
...wrote a scathing column in a London newspaper calling for moderate Muslims to denounce the Taliban and other "Islamic" rulers who make me ashamed to be a Muslim. I criticized British Muslims for failing to condemn militants, the oppressors of women and those who have developed such a joyless and oppressive Islam on our own shores. My e-mail system was jammed for two days by angry messages from supporters of the Taliban regime and other apologists...
...cousin Daphne") and a monster truck rally. (P. Diddy arrived on an 18-wheeler.) And those were some of the more dignified moments at the MTV Video Music Awards, a spectacle that started low and slithered downhill from there, landing in a lagoon of cheese, with BRITNEY SPEARS' joyless gyrations to her new single Slave 4 U. (She didn't like her boa, it seems.) The most curious aspect was the shameless shilling. Presenters like MACY GRAY, right, Busta Rhymes, Shakira and others were more interested in the "Song of Myself," relentlessly hawking their new releases. At least Missy Elliott...
Perhaps an awareness of how much remains to be done is responsible for Labour's surprisingly joyless campaign. The American-style machine that seemed so fearsome in 1997 is now trying too hard--even naming the three buses traveling with Blair "Strong Economy," "Strong Leadership" and "Strong Britain." Labour is overcompensating for its dirty little secret: an average government spending increase so far, despite all its can-do rhetoric, of a measly 1.3% a year, part of its obsession with reassuring the middle class that it wouldn't be profligate. Big money started to flow this year...