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...drone and clunky snare forms a unique texture of a cohesive reality, resulting in perhaps the purest aural approximation of human experience put to record. The enlightened “In Church” recreates a Christian mass from organs, disparate choral fractions and a persistent solitary fuzz-synth preacher. “Gone” is bombarded with the memories of a lost love, culminating in a cathartic screech that clears out until all that remains is the dull memory of the sensation. With only Crayola-simple synth beats and the occasional muted female vocalist at their disposal, French...
...Says No U.K. Unionist voters in Northern Ireland threw up a new obstacle to the peace process by handing power to Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party (D.U.P.), which is out to topple the 1998 Good Friday agreement. The fiery preacher's party became the province's largest, ousting former First Minister David Trimble's moderate Ulster Unionists. The D.U.P. won by promising it would not share power with the first choice of nationalists, Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein, which picked up 24 of 108 Assembly seats. During victory celebrations, Paisley threatened to expel any D.U.P. member who so much...
...State Department raged last week that Pat Robertson had suggested nuking its HQ. Did he, or didn't he? It's a close call as to who has said the darndest things lately--the Rev. or preacher's daughter Jessica Simpson, star of this season's required reality viewing, MTV's Newlyweds...
Responding to students’ voiced concerns over a potentially depoliticized Harvard community, the 70-year-old preacher offered his own life experience as inspiration...
...average country lament. John R. Cash (his first producer, Sun Records boss Sam Phillips, dubbed him Johnny) had every right to sing the country blues. Demons found him even when he wasn't looking for them. He dressed like a hip coroner and sang like a gunman turned Pentecostal preacher. His haunting songs perfectly matched his haunted voice. Rarely before Cash had a singer taken vocal pain--not the adolescent shriek of most rock singers but the abiding ache of a veteran victim--and made it so audible, so immediate, so dark and deep. Rarely, before or since...