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...wrestler the Rock. A Marley-ish protest song about police brutality (Diallo) is balanced by a lighthearted tribute to marijuana (Something About Mary). Along the way, there's a sexy duet with hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige (911) and a nostalgic, rap-infused cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. The CD's most striking song, however, may be its first, Where Fugee At, a blunt call for Wyclef's bandmates to come back together: "Lauryn, if you're listening/Pras, if you're listening/Give me a call I'm in the lab in the Booga Basement...
...land of no taste, the man with bad taste is king. John Waters has been lobbing turd grenades at American culture since Pink Flamingos in 1972. These days, with unimaginative grossness prevailing in popular art, Waters seems a throwback, an Edwardian dandy forced to baby-sit the South Park kids. How to offend, he must wonder, without being an old fart...
...contemplates the sneak serve she is about to make. The painting's visual rhymes are delicious. Each feather of the shuttlecock, for instance, repeats some element of her appearance. White feathers repeat the white of her apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance of spontaneous feeling with the discreet display of its opposite, a technical perfection whose integrity rises from knowing its own limits...
...every once in a while I get lucky. Like the night the gang stayed up late playing truth or dare. Or the times Eddie, the Long Island tough who lost a leg to cancer, tells anyone who will listen, "Chicks dig me. I dunno why." Or when Brittany, the pink-haired virgin, innocently persuaded Karen, the unhappy housewife, and Josh, the surfer heartthrob, to cuddle with her as a threesome in the "big bed of looove...
...said, "Hillary has a case of schizophrenia. She puts on her nice pink dress and nice pearls and goes into the East Room and talks about babies and children... and then she goes out and tells people how to live their lives...