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Kamakiriad is worth the wait. Produced by Becker, who also pitches in on bass and solo guitar, the album picks up where Gaucho and The Nightfly left off and goes one step further, meshing Fagen's urbanely elliptic lyrics with the sonic sass and snap of Steely Dan. The faithful will be glad to know that Becker and Fagen are already writing songs together for a new album, and plans are under way for a Steely Dan tour this summer. Meanwhile, Kamakiriad continues the Steely Dan legacy while deftly sidestepping the quicksand of nostalgia...
There was another crucial factor. As a black star, Murphy was pigeonholed by the industry. "When it comes to black actors," says Reginald Hudlin, the (black) director of Boomerang, "many screenwriters find it difficult to get beyond race." Then, too, the zeitgeist was changing. For all his street sass and gutter gargle, Murphy is basically a middle-class star, closer to Bill Cosby than to the new wave of African-American filmmakers (Spike Lee, John Singleton) and rapmasters (all those hot Ices). Their marketable anger made Eddie look timid, irrelevant, a hipper but still compromised version of the old Negro...
...were wrong. Everybody's favorite cartoon show seemed, for its first year or so, longer on sass than satire. But this season Homer has supplanted Bart at the program's center, and the series has soared to inventive new heights, skewering everything from multinational corporate takeovers to America's Funniest Home Videos. No doubt anymore: it's TV's most dangerous sitcom...
...were wrong. Everybody's favorite cartoon show seemed, for its first year or so, longer on sass than satire. But this season Homer has supplanted Bart at the program's center, and the series has soared to inventive new heights, skewering everything from multinational corporate takeovers to America's Funniest Home Videos. No doubt anymore: it's TV's most dangerous sitcom...
...more aggressive view of Mary is emerging from feminist circles within the church, emphasizing her autonomy, independence and earthiness. Old- fashioned views of the Virgin, complains Sister Elizabeth Johnson, a Fordham University professor of theology, "make her appear above the earth, remote and passive," with "no sex and no sass." She adds, "There's still a strong element of that in the present hierarchy...