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...breathe," a song that flows like "Half a World Away" from Out of Time but carries a much sadder message. Stipe sings of a man who has lived a long life and is ready to die--a man whom Stipe himself resembles in a picture in the liner notes: The Singer's lifeless eyes, embedded in a scarred, wrinkled face, peer from inside a hooded jacket. In "Breathe," the elderly man's "eyes are the eyes of the old"--the eyes of the hooded Stipe. "I will hold my breath until these shivers subside," he sings. "Just look...
...people, from Castro's own disaffected daughter Alina to Cuba's "yummies" (young upwardly mobile Marxists). Especially telling is the contrast between Che Guevara's eldest grandchild, Canek, a vocally unhappy heavy-metal rock fan, and Armando Hart, the Minister of Culture, who protests "I am a hard-liner!" when complimented for being an open-minded member of Fidel's circle...
...clutter and creating dozens of new architectural moments -- glimpses of Central Park, comfortably arm's-length views of the great ramp itself, details of the Wright building freshly revealed. Gwathmey unabashedly believes that he has unveiled a new and improved Guggenheim. "It's no longer," he says, "a one-liner...
...even that one-liner -- the spiraling ramp, soaring atrium and glass dome -- has been reinvigorated, allowed to have its punch line. For years the top section of the ramp was partitioned off and turned into a large closet. Now visitors can go all the way to the grand summit, and curators have been given back the best, roomiest gallery space in Wright's building...
...Souljah makes clear in a liner note thanking Sony for "acknowledging my artistic freedom," she not only wrote that lyric but set it in a context that she chose for herself. The eye-for-an-eye message is unmistakable...