Word: redeeming
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...music selection was a departure from Friday’s onslaught of “Three Blind Mice” and “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.” But even timely Offspring and Queen selections could not redeem the fact that a Chumbawumba song was played twice...
...This attitude will save the party from being overwhelmed by its presently more outspoken opponents. The timing is perfect and the Democrats must seize the opportunity. Congresswoman Pelosi’s charisma, coupled with her tenacity, will no doubt be the change needed to help the Democrats redeem their direction and generate a lively and aggressive comeback...
...book business, the indies are also banding together. Their American Booksellers Association established national gift certificates so that customers or their friends and family could redeem them at any member shop (of which there are 1,200, about half the nation's indies). The independents have an e-commerce site called BookSense.com to go up against Amazon.com They display best-seller lists compiled from indie shops nationwide and benefit from a $600,000 ad budget, used for promotions in such publications as the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly...
...hail Def Jux, saviors of American hip hop. Not only have they produced a brace of rappers outrageously talented enough to redeem a near-moribund genre—in RJD2, they have proved that they don’t even need a rapper to do it. The beats and cuts on RJD2’s debut solo album, Deadringer, are as fresh as they come, neither burdened with artistic pretension nor simply catering to the dance floor...
...Surrealism 1919-1944," however, lets Dali more than redeem himself by spot-lighting his seldom exhibited knockout of a picture from 1944, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up. It depicts a Venus-like Gala reclining nude above some rocks. Above her, two cinematic tigers leap out of a goldfish's mouth - and seemingly out of the canvas. It is so strikingly circus-like it seems almost to make sense...