Word: leavenings
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...quite matches the North Sea Jazz Festival (July 11-13), which packs around 250 acts into one weekend in The Hague. "You make your own festival," says director Theo van den Hoek. Visitors can go pure with Chicago's spectacular pianist-singer Patricia Barber and trumpeter Dave Douglas, or leaven tradition with deep house, like Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, or with klezmer, like John Zorn's Electric Masada. If that's all too demanding, no problem: a full weekend's schedule can be crafted with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Steve Winwood and Solomon Burke. No one's keeping score...
...every few years for a danceable single, a low neckline and a naughty video or public scandal. Americans want those things too, but they demand that their pop stars also make a show of evolving into something more. We require at least the appearance of artistic appetite to leaven the guilt of a cheap thrill...
...terror that launched the campaign, what has been achieved, and the patience that will be needed. The back-to-basics plan is reminiscent of Bush's strategy during the presidential campaign. When in trouble, he returned to his core issues of education and compassion. So this week, to leaven images of advisers clustered around mikes in D.C. briefing rooms talking about spores, Americans can expect to see Bush address the homeland threat from the heartland. He hopes to chart the progress that has been made so far, devoting one address to the success his team has had in drying...
...With the plan almost surely still being written, Bush still has an opportunity to leaven his outlook a little. Include something convincing about cleaner air, just to have a response that doesn't turn Big Business into its own watchdog. But the fighters' stances are pretty much set. Gore will go environmental at least occasionally, but his main defense will be the one Democrats have grown so skilled at deploying against the GOP: Hey, we're just trying to help you heat your homes and drive your cars. Is that so wrong? Bush and Cheney will try to find...