Word: smarted
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...songs on Plantation Lullabies feature whiplash bass grooves and down- for-the-struggle lyrics. This is literate, smart music about black life, like a Terry McMillan book set to a beat. NdegeOcello's voice flows easily from singing to speaking, brashly loitering in the space in between. "Konks and fade creams, sad passion deferred dreams," she sing-speaks on Soul on Ice, a swipe at buppies who refuse to date black women. "You want blond- haired, blue-eyed soul;/ Snow-white passion without the hot comb." Other songs deal with everything from love on the subway to what she sees...
...West is also discovering that once a nation engages to bring war-torn countries relief, it is almost impossible to disengage. Last week Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited the British troops in Bosnia to see if it might be a smart time to get them out. He came home full of admiration for the soldiers fighting to deliver aid despite constant danger. Britain's participation in the humanitarian program -- as frustrating as it is -- is popular enough that one Foreign Office official admitted "withdrawal would be difficult domestically...
...EXPRESSIONS OF ANTICRIME muscularity sound so satisfying, which is why, after embracing the idea in last week's State of the Union address, Bill Clinton was rewarded with his longest standing ovation (22 seconds). Here, the President said, is a solution that's both "tough and smart...
...smart? "Hardly," says Joe Biden, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman no one has ever accused of being soft on crime. "Three strikes is the wacko" product of other Senators eager to outdo their colleagues on the toughness scale...
...crucial word for Brooks, in I'll Do Anything and his other work, is decency; it defines the goal and the pain of most of those smart, middle-class folks he writes about from the inside. "Every character is struggling toward decency," says Brooks, "except for Matt, who is struggling to stay decent. That's a hard road for a lot of us in Hollywood. And not just out here, I would imagine. This is a tough time to be absolutely certain about moral truths. We have to be careful about what makes us feel good about ourselves. Saying 'Good...