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...respected R.-and-B. grandmaster who has racked up 17 Grammys, a best-song Oscar and 18 No. 1 R.-and-B. singles. When a guy like Wonder releases a new CD--his first in four years--we expect a slam dunk. His fans feel entitled to an album of undiluted brilliance, like Fulfillingness' First Finale or Songs in the Key of Life or the soundtrack to Jungle Fever. Or songs of ecumenical funkiness like Superstition or Boogie On Reggae Woman or Signed, Sealed, Delivered...
Some evolution has taken place in this crippled genre. Take last month's "Losing Isaiah." Hmm, you think, could be about death, kidnapping or even a slam-bang lost-in-the-big-city caper. But no, "Losing Isaiah" draws its plot from the topical problem of surrogate motherhood. How did I know? Luckily, I saw the subheading: "Who Decides What Makes a Mother?" Yes, these titles have become so vague that a whole other title of unlimited length--defeating the entire original objective--becomes necessary...
...part of our strategy," Doherty said."We feel like we have a slam-dunk case on theemployment discrimination, and we don't want to godown and lead the jury down a diversionary path...
...Republicans, tax cuts are becoming a kind of deadly virus, threatening to cripple any G.O.P. measure that they infect. Welfare reform--the passion of angry white males--should have been a slam-dunk issue for Republicans. But last week they somehow allowed tax cuts--the passion of their campaign contributors--to get in the way. The Personal Responsibility bill of 1995, approved by the House last week, would save at least $66 billion by the year 2001 by limiting eligibility for welfare to five years in a lifetime and requiring recipients to go back to work after two years...
...busy until the fall of the next year) so there we were lurking around his office. The dean's first strategy was to pretend there were no such things as Crimson reporters or photographers. "Hi Dean McArthur, I'm Steve Frank from the Harvard Crimson and I was wondering..." SLAM, went the Dean's door. I had to go to class, but Steve waited diligently for two hours at which time the Dean switched strategies (perhaps after consulting his consultants). Walking into the waiting room with his hand outstretched, he said, "Hi Mr. Frank, want to go to lunch?" They...