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...their particularly rousing "Ring the Bells," lead singer Tim Booth's throaty voice urges us to examine our lives, and to take control. His poetic, paradoxical lyrics ("When you let me die my spirit's free/ There's nothing challenging me") incite us to accept the unfortunate and grow from...
...Close By" offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...
...This is poetic justice," Beys said in theinterview afterwards. "Whatever mistakes I madewith the Spin Doctors ... were redeemed by theunanimous vote. The council knows that the lastthree weeks of work and fighting have been for thesake of the students...
...tone of his narration abruptly shifts in the second half of the movie, after Santana is paroled. The protagonist resumes his role as drug kingpin, but the poetic voice-overs are gone. Santana struggles with everything. He clashes with rival gangs and with formerly loyal lieutenants like J.D., a "half-breed" played in old-time gangster style by William Forsythe...
...pressure nicely. Earlier this year, he directed Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy and Iman in the lavish music video Remember the Time. The director gave himself a cameo role as a camel driver. Next month Singleton will get down to more serious business when he begins shooting his original screenplay Poetic Justice, a lyrical look at relationships between black men and women...