Word: steps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...background music, “Hush” can be tolerable, even more-so when Chikudate stays quiet or knocks down her vocals a couple octaves, but as rock music the album can’t hold one’s attention. Asobi Seksu fails to take a step forward with their music, and perhaps even ends up taking a step backwards. Their last album, “Citrus,” was a fun and exciting listen; “Hush” is anything but. There are solid segments when the music is muddled, the vocals...
Maybe the Muslim world is, after all, a mystery to the West. Maybe the two cultures have simply diverged one step too far from each other—somehow neither can break the encryption just beneath the surface of the mutual chatter that seems to elicit so much wrath and illuminate as little common ground. Maybe the only hope that the people of the West can understand the subtlety and beauty of the Islamic culture comes in the form of a docu-drama made up to look like an historical epic—one whose patronizing tone is only outpaced...
...remain in power until 2049, when, at 95, he would be older than his inspiration, Fidel Castro, is today. We’ll see if Venezuela’s oil wealth can last until then. For the moment, it’s clear that this new referendum is a step backward for Venezuelan democracy...
...reported slices of life, Nine Lives reveals New Orleans as a vibrant, otherworldly land - a city in its own orbit. Beyond all the death, destruction and lives upended, one of the great jolts of the storm was that it forced a city that has always been somewhat out of step with the rest of American life to confront itself, in all its quirks and vulnerabilities. Baum's is a compassionate account of a most unique American city's long, strange journey...
...Some of the USCCB's own policy staffers are reportedly frustrated by the attention given to FOCA. And a few Catholic officials have even taken the rare step of speaking out to correct misinformation about the issue...