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...Swiss bank accounts or otherwise. While there are loopholes - payments to foreign political parties, for example, are not included, and some so-called facilitating payments are allowed - experts agree that the days of graft on a grand scale are over. "It can't be the way it was," says Lucinda Low, a leading U.S. anticorruption lawyer. "That kind of open [corruption] has changed." But what is hidden may simply become harder to find. Jermyn Brooks, executive director of Transparency International, a group that fights corruption, worries that the new laws against bribes just mean that "much subtler methods are used...
...tempting to say that with her seventh album, World Without Tears, Lucinda Williams is knocking on Bob and Bruce's door. Tempting, but untrue, because for years she has been their equal as a writer of aching lyrics and easy hooks. But owing to the no-poetry rule, and a few other irrational market prejudices, she was branded with that deadliest of commercial adjectives: challenging. Her high-art pedigree--she is the daughter of poet Miller Williams, who wrote Inaugural verse for Bill Clinton in 1997--scared off arena crowds; her blending of country, folk, rock and blues made...
...tracks such as Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings and Righteously, you could be listening to vintage Rolling Stones. "I had wanted to do a more up-tempo thing," says Williams, "and a few years ago Greg Sowders, who I used to be married to, said, 'Lucinda, you just need to do a rock record. This could be your Exile on Main Street...
Failer sags in its second half as Edwards, 24, succumbs to a premature world weariness that betrays a dangerous Ryan Adams crush. Still, she generates enough goodwill early that she deserves a place at the table, somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Sheryl Crow. Not a bad table, for a bunch of losers. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...paneling as well as a gorgeous stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany may be an unlikely venue for a dance troupe. However, the notion is not entirely alien to dance. The Judson Church in New York’s Greenwich Village was the place choreographers Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs and Twyla Tharp collaborated to help create postmodern dance. Indeed, once pews have been removed, churches with their expansive nave and proscenium stage are ideal spaces for dance...