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Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is Morissette's follow-up to her big success. It's not a great album, but it's a greatly ambitious one. After the big splash of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette slipped into a blind spot of the public's eye. She went to India; she tested her physical limits in a triathlon; she passed on interviews. When she re-entered the studio earlier this year, she had more on her mind and much more to say; the songs on her new CD deal with such issues as false gurus and abusive relationships...
...Basketballs bounce in the distance, and a poster next to the weight room illustrates the "6 S's of Fitness" (strength, stamina, speed, suppleness, skill, spirit). The kids racing down the linoleum hallway take Spanish, art, p.e. and government here. They hit baseballs from the pitching machine, and they splash in the pool. But this is not their school. They go to school at home...
...Hollywood Screen Kiss). Familiar renegades prove they can expand on their obsessions: Hal Hartley in Henry Fool, Neil LaBute in Your Friends and Neighbors. An old timer like James Ivory displays renewed grace with A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. And this fall four filmmakers who made a collective splash in 1995 and '96 are presenting works that offer hope for a better, bolder American moviescape...
...made a bigger splash than Elway in 1983. He was an instant starter for Denver and won his first two games. But after losing the next three games, he was benched. Elway got to start five more games that season only because Steve DeBerg got hurt...
Salon magazine editor David Talbot knew that if his scrappy little webzine ran a story about Henry Hyde's sex life it would make a big splash inside the Beltway. But no sooner had Salon started playing in the media big leagues than Talbot began acting like a Steinbrenner, firing his Washington bureau chief for grousing publicly about his news judgment. Did Talbot forget that journalism -- especially web journalism -- is supposed to be about freedom of speech...