Word: pang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sean ("Puffy") Combs (who's worked with rapper the Notorious B.I.G.), Jermaine Dupri (Mariah Carey, Usher), and Lauryn Hill (of the hip-hop band the Fugees). Still, this is Aretha's show. Numbers like the cardiotonic title track urge female self-esteem; another song, the sweetly epiphanous ballad Love Pang, links the everyday chores of life to recollections of romance. Franklin talked with TIME in her hometown of Detroit...
Remember a few years ago when you suddenly couldn't eat a tuna-fish sandwich without a pang of guilt--unless the tuna can bore a seal promising that no dolphins had inadvertently been harmed when the fish was caught? Soon there will be a new faux pas du jour: eating the endangered swordfish. If environmentalists have their way, most restaurants will take the delicacy off their menu, and those that don't will lose customers in the wake of a great swordfish boycott...
...past, the Indian masses were left out of the political and economic systems. Now the democratic forces are disseminating the political power. The lower caste and the untouchables have joined Indian politics, understandably with a vengeance. The resulting chaos, Rushdie noted in his article, is the birth pang of an evolving democratic society trying to free itself from the clutches of feudalism. It takes time to evolve, and in its 51st year the process has just started. But look at history; it took centuries for Western democracy to reach its present glory. PRODIP DUTTA Terre Haute...
...there's a part of me that regards this NO TRESPASSING sign with a distinct pang of regret. Most of us who sign our name to a story or appear on camera have more than a touch of ham in us, and I am no exception. In fact, I can watch even the most revered of movies and think, Hey, I could be playing myself in that film...
...never illustrated it as voluptuously as here. He and ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle bathe Gong Li in warm reds, giving her a fever of frustrated love, and surround Cheung with cold grays to reflect the ice of his resentment. As the slick gigolo and avenging angel of the Pang family, Cheung radiates the intensity of a lover scorned and scarred for life. In a performance that dares to avoid sentiment and sympathy, Cheung is the anchor for this mesmerizing essay in love and betrayal...