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...Waiting to go on at the hotel, in an oak-paneled room equipped with bar and pool table, the Kroks relax and practice some of their music. Without soloist, they revealed the bare and mindless ba-ba ba-ba's that are the backbone ("block" is the official term) of college a capella. One wonders how even the thrill of the bar (it was nice, to be sure), the gratis filet mignon and the reliable applause could keep them singing this stuff for a dozen hours every week. Although the stirring ballad "Loch Lomond" is referred to simply as "Loch...
...singer Tionne ("T-Boz") Watkins of the R.-and-B./hip-hop trio TLC. Cole even raps on one track. The main problem, though, is that the music is all too polite. Cole's last CD, This Fire, had moments of wild art-rock invention; here, she is content to relax in the groove. Her lyrics, though, can be admirably biting. The album's last song, God Is Watching, condemns "new slavery prison systems/ Holding one in four Black American brothers." If Cole is looking for amens, she'll get one for that line...
...upbeat, old-style musical performed by extremely talented actors." The show promises to showcase a cast with substantial talent in all three key areas of musical theater- acting, dancing and singing. In the words of director Mike Roiff, "It's musical theater the way it should be. Sit back, relax and enjoy two hours of pure entertainment...
...restaurants, delicatessens and garbage bins are not as healthy. What sorts of lives do homeless people live? Wealth and stability--which the homeless lack--invite knowledge of and time for pursuing a healthier lifestyle. This means access to healthy food, appropriate health care and safe locations to exercise or relax. Hicks focuses his dull and uninformed contempt on a woman who can be assumed to lack these resources...
...with me to Wellesley College, where we both gave commencement speeches. We took a wonderful trip down the Moscow River, and George and I spent a weekend with Mikhail and Raisa at Camp David. Even when the talks between our husbands were tense, the four of us could relax as friends...