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...much more of a comedown when What Hits!?, the title of the new collection, contains only "Under the Bridge," the Chili's smash hit of the summer, from the last album. Where's "If You Have to Ask," "Funky Monks," or "Mellowship Slinky in B major," to name just a few? Or, as the Chili Peppers are trying to ride off the success of "Under the Bridge," why did they not include the other slow balladesque song from Blood, "I Could Have Lied...
...from squinting in that direction. But prognosticating has always been a difficult, if not perilous, undertaking. No less a person than Henry Adams, one of America's most perceptive thinkers and historians, declared in 1903: "My figures coincide in setting 1950 as the year that the world must go smash." Close, but no prize...
...should smash the current educational curriculum. I see the multiculturalism being peddled now as a fraud. History is being distorted. It is regarded as nothing but a record of pain, oppression, disaster and atrocities. My master plan for world understanding is a new kind of education based on comparative religion and archaeology, on an arts-centered curriculum. I am also calling for a Reform feminism instead of the hatred of men now being peddled. Feminism must turn back toward...
...single. With his new album, Change Your World, Smith aims for the loftier success of Amy Grant, who blazed the Christian-to-pop crossover. But while the secular songs Geffen will promote to radio are pleasant (the syrupy duet with Grant, Somewhere Somehow, could be a smash), the album's better cuts reflect Smith's religious roots. A standout: Cross of Gold, which challenges people who wear holy symbols around their necks but lack saintliness in their souls...
...BOTTOM LINE: Can't get to those smash "new" musicals? No sweat -- they sound even better on record...