Word: rants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feet banging away is to feel his passion, his intent; visuals would be nice but aren't necessary. Noise/Funk is a historical work, tracing the black experience from slave times to the present through tap dancing, and much is expressed in the songs that Glover dances to. Gospel/Hip-Hop Rant is one of the best tracks here, deftly juxtaposing the pleading, lamenting sounds of gospel with the rougher, younger sounds...
...train wreck a century and a half ago sent Herman Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...Police, Sting launched a solo career with the release of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, a slickly adventurous album that featured saxophonist Branford Marsalis and keyboardist Kenny Kirkland. All Sting's six solo albums have been distinctive: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, with its anti-cold war rant Russians, was the most pointed; the 1991 release The Soul Cages, much of which concerns the death of Sting's father, was the most personal. Mercury Falling stands out as his most consistently entertaining effort. The lyrics are smart but not ostentatiously cerebral. The instrumental work of Kirkland, who performs...
...disagrees, and he has every right to patronize stores in Central Square if he chooses. However, his individual opinion about what he perceives to be a diminishing grade of one-on-one customer service in the world-at-large was only written to deliver a highly personal, vindictive rant, apparently as revenge for a specific incident. Accordingly, his opinion lacks any redeeming value for your readers-at-large...
...BRISTLE-JAWED COVER PICTURE OF Gingrich reminded me of an advertising jingle that adorned the country's roadsides about 50 years ago: Does your husband misbehave Grunt and grumble, rant and rave Shoot the brute some Burma Shave It's worth a try. JOHN C. HARRIS Fulton, Missouri...