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...wouldn’t make a fuss about this, UHS, if I felt that this treatment was a unique situation. It’s not that I’m singling out the first doctor as malevolent. I understand she was just stressed out, overworked, tired. But you are staffed with academics like her who did not sign on for this, who prefer the low-simmer stress of the classroom to the adrenaline spikes of the emergency room. They are wonderful when it comes to the quotidian checkups that most of us use you for—but when...
Especially if alcohol is involved. Alcohol might make us act drunk, but it makes you, UHS, act crazy. You fixate on the substance rather than on the substantive problems. We hear anecdotes all the time of friends showing up drunk and with broken ankles, yet only treated—with a sneer—for the alcohol. The psychological trauma of having to spend any time in a hospital (where no hospitality is to be found) is hard enough as is without having those who are supposed to “help” only helping increase our sense...
...fact, the most plausible explanation for this excrescence of an album is that Underwood and her handlers have decided that the best way to crossover from country to pop is to make an album in the tradition of the television show that launched her career. As any follower of “Idol” will know, its judges and producers have always maintained a healthy distaste for melody or, indeed, music in general, preferring to applaud and highlight performances of vocal excess, culminating most often in “glory notes.” It is an aesthetic comprehensively...
...level, focusing on Underwood’s voice might make sense, as she is a technically flawless natural, as effortless a female singer as any in a genre which has a richer tradition of great female vocalists than any other. As her eponymous 2005 debut and 2007’s “Carnival Ride” showed, she can sing country—and ballads in particular—with verve and gusto. But on those albums she sang the songs; here, she overpowers them, such as they are, with pyrotechnics. The result is impressive, perhaps, but certainly...
...Being a Zen Buddhist is all about freeing yourself from any unnatural elements, which will hinder your own ability to pursue what you want to achieve in life. In my case that’s to make art,” she says. “In the fine arts department, it’s about being fluid and free while also staying focused...