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...different from taking the lead on an ideologically loaded issue. And in his first nine years in Congress, he was never the front man on any cause dear to conservative hearts. Even Jay Dickey, an Arkansas Republican and friend, jokes that Paxon is "a New York conservative--conservative lite...
...Berg's theology. Berg traces the center's roots to two Israeli rabbis, the late Yehudah Ashlag and Brandwein. But Brandwein's son Avraham denies any connection between the center and Brandwein's legacy, and some scholars characterize Berg's teachings as New Age perversions, a sort of Kabbalah Lite cooked up for Americans...
...lead voice is sometimes a bit nasally, but only enhances the endearing pop cheesiness that occasionally oozes through. The pop-lite style gives Love an ironic twist, especially in some of the more cynical tunes. Singing in a teeny-bop voice, Buni reflects on the complexity and bitterness of many of his relationships. The sugary tunes do become saccharine sometimes, as if they were a parody of pop history from the Byrds to R.E.M. After a while, the constant tambourine shaking and acoustic guitar strumming become grating. "A Fire," for example, relies heavily on pop love song conventions--the chorus...
...stuff lately. I'm probably breaking any number of Crimson internal editorial commandments when I say so, but if its recent activity means anything, the semisecret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine seems intent on moving away from its "final-club-lite" reputation and toward a more relevant role on campus...
...lure the Republican Party back to the center from its Buchananite extremes. With their message of keeping the government out of the pocketbook and the bedroom, they could sell the all-important swing voters of the '90s-white middle- and upper-middle class suburbanites-the original of the Republican-Lite itch that Bill Clinton has used so effectively to twice beat the Republicans at their own game...