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...taken by the cutter Sanibel to the U.S.S. Briscoe, which had steamed up from Virginia overnight by special request of the Secretary of Defense. The only things those left onshore could see were the bright whites of the officials, the black of the mourners and a puff of smoke as the Briscoe motored out to the point at which the most powerful telephoto lenses could register just the silhouettes of the mourners. The family bore their loved ones' ashes, three wreaths and three American flags. Caroline held her husband's hand as he clutched a canvas bag. Red, white...
Make no mistake, this album is not just nifty samples recycled over drum beats, a la Puff Daddy. The above songs are masterpieces not of genre-bending, but of genre-using. The rest of Play is no different. Sinewy piano parts easily outmaneuver the drums on "Rushing" and the throbbing "Everloving." The tradition of hard Moby dance floor tracks is continued with "Bodyrock" and "Machete." And "If Things Were Perfect"brings a modern version of acoustic R.E.M. or Simon and Garfunkel to mind...
...grand tradition of Puff Daddy, Kid Rock is sitting at his kitchen table in his small house in Royal Oak, a Detroit suburb, doing what hip-hop moguls are supposed to do: field phone calls. O.K., perhaps it isn't that grand a tradition, and maybe Kid Rock isn't exactly a hip-hop mogul yet--but he's certainly making a run at it. His new album, Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic/Lava), is in the Billboard Top 10. Alongside the messages on his refrigerator door about his six-year-old son Junior's field trips (Kid Rock...
...appeal is easy enough to understand. Audiences love child prodigies, and record-company executives love them even more--especially when they act like ordinary kids, not prematurely serious artist-nerds. That's Church all over: a cheerful talk-show guest, she admits to being a fan of Puff Daddy's and Celine Dion's. Even better, she has the kind of I'm-no-snob demeanor that goes over spectacularly well in class-obsessed Britain, where artists who have (or can simulate) the common touch can count on being boosted by the down-market tabloids. That too is Church...
...campuses all over the country. But, unless some-one wants to mount a campaign to bring the Onion to Harvard, you'll have to check it out online at www.theonion.com. Harvard even finds a place in Our Dumb Century, when John F. Kennedy calls himself not a powder puff but "Ich bin Ein Ivy-League playboy millionaire" and "Ich bin ein privileged, blue-blood Harvard...