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Rumors spread in 1987 that the Black Album was kept from release because it was too raunchy and violent for radio (true) and the distributor was squeamish about its content (probably also true). But the real reason for holding the record back, Prince later told some of his friends, was that after finishing it he had a dream in which he experienced a religious vision. "It was like a born-again thing," recalls a close associate. "He felt this music was way too dark and said if he died, he didn't want this being the last thing representing...
...about family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. We cannot be embarrassed out of our belief that two parents, married to each other, are better in most cases for children than one." Pshaw. Who would even attempt to embarrass anyone else out of such mild beliefs -- especially with that squeamish qualification, "in most cases...
Already the dioceses are being adversely affected by squeamish insurance companies that expected church liabilities to include only tumbles down rain- soaked steps. Now they are reluctant to extend coverage and even to remit payment for expensive lawsuits. New Mexico's Santa Fe archdiocese has settled 48 cases within the past year against priests who served there. Some insurers, however, are stonewalling over payments. Just before Christmas, Archbishop Michael Sheehan claimed that bankruptcy loomed and asked for added financial assistance from parishioners at all 91 parishes in the archdiocese...
This is not music for the squeamish -- or even the optimistic. Meshing the angry nihilism of punk and heavy metal with the synthetic sheen of techno, The Downward Spiral is a 14-song, 65-minute howl of somebody falling into the void. What keeps it from being just another nauseating exercise in shock rock is the intelligence and creative force behind its dire sound. On March of the Pigs, for example, layers of shifting static are suddenly broken by a lyrical piano riff that blooms like a flower through cracked pavement before the wall of noise crushes it again...
Nuland writes about death with unsentimental passion. In an opening episode -- which squeamish readers may find hard to get through without wincing -- he describes his first professional encounter with the phenomenon. As a third- year medical student, he was checking on a 52-year-old male who had entered the hospital with chest pains when the patient suddenly had a massive, life- ending heart attack. In a state of preternatural calm, Nuland responded as his training had taught him: he grabbed a scalpel and scissors, cut open the man's chest and began massaging the still twitching heart. The organ...