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Album titles that sound like Zen koans are almost always a sign of musical vapidity (New Age alert!). But not here. On his seventh disc as a leader, this adventurous 27-year-old jazz pianist justifies the title's paradox with playing that is full of odd stops and starts and tonal shifts, all of which he negotiates with delicacy rather than flash. This is music that manages to be both prickly and soothing--like anxious lullabies (to suggest another unappetizing title). Though Keezer gives himself three solo numbers--a highlight being his gentle deconstruction of Lush Life--the heart...
...influx of better-educated, more suburban voters to the new North Carolina has created a political paradox. The state's electorate is becoming more Republican yet less conservative. New voters in Charlotte and Research Triangle Park tend to register Republican but still prefer fiscally responsible pragmatists--even if they sometimes happen to be Democrats--over firebrand ideologues. Faircloth, a successful hog farmer and former Democrat, scores better in the rural east, which is dominated by socially conservative white Democrats who frequently cross party lines to vote for Helms and other G.O.P. culture warriors. Black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats. The result...
Success for a punk is quite the paradox, at least in term of ideology, and Armstrong spends a whole song contemplating the fleeting whirlwind journey of Rancid's radio success in "Backslide": "nobody knows me/I'm all alone/I gotta go/Hollywood bus stop and the party's over/I gotta go." Exemplifying the amazing lines exhibited throughout Life Won't Wait, crooning, "have you ever been looked at by your past and it will never let you go." You get the impression that the members of Rancid weren't perfectly aware of what they were getting into by releasing the modern rock...
...perfectly captured the paradox that is Jim Carrey: a man who has grown past, but still remains, the frightening mask of mirth." STEPHEN GERALD KENT Cranbrook...
...archetypal Gen Xers project an image that is hip and urbane. Disaffected with politics, cynical of pop culture, they are eager to catalogue the offenses of the baby boomers who inflated the debt and pitted the ozone layer. Their angst for the future is contagious. Until you see its paradox...