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...album is pure testosterone, straight up, no chaser. For Ice Cube, protecting and asserting his manhood is an important political act. His ancestors came over in the bottom of the boat, the generation before him rode in the back of the bus, and he sure isn't going to go out handcuffed in the rear of a police car. The first song, When Will They Shoot?, is a blast of fear and loathing to a thumping metallic beat. "Will they do me like Malcolm?" Ice Cube asks. "Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven . . . The KKK has got three-piece...
...SORT OF VOICE YOU MIGHT hear wafting pure and plaintive from the holding tank in a county jail. With the face of an orphaned angel, STACY DEAN CAMPBELL offers no fuss, no frills, just righteous white-boy blues ("Would you run away from me/ If I came crawlin' back to you"). His debut album, Lonesome Wins Again, is 10 sticks of slow-fused Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back...
Holiday dwelled and worked, however, on a plane of pure, primal feeling, and by that standard -- on her level -- this package contains peerless music. Like a superb actress, Holiday knew how to internalize her turmoil. She had too much pride in her womanhood, her race and her artistry to turn herself into a sorry paradigm of self-pity. Rather she could make each song she sang a personal testament -- a confession, a regret, a reverie. She did not trade on her personal devastation. She used it till the end, to drive her artistry...
Much has changed over the years. Tharp is 51 and losing some of her plasticity, if none of her cheek. Baryshnikov is 44. Because of recurrent knee problems, his famous jump has been curtailed and he cannot lift Tharp, but his technique is as pure and liquid as ever. The evening, with mostly new works, tries to cope with the physical realities that confront them both and is only partly successful...
...from the outside and crushes it before it can do much good. Convoy drivers hijack their own cargoes. Relief workers, many of them volunteers and all of them unarmed, have been subjected to death threats, shakedowns, looting and kidnapping. "To send workers out there without defending them is immoral, pure and simple," said Frederick Cuny, an American disaster-management consultant...