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...race, it's clear what kind of choice George W. Bush wants to offer America: Reagan vs. Bush. But this time Bush will play Reagan and Gore will play Bush. Get it? George W. hopes to sketch this contest (he's already thinking general election) as the sunny, straight-talkin', conservative cowboy from out West against the tense, aloof, out-of-touch elitist from back East. In other words, he's trying to assume the role perfected in 1980 by Ronald Reagan (but without all that pesky ideology) while casting Al Gore as the pencil-neck child of the Establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Meet George W. Reagan | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...addition, these self-congratulatory songs are still centered around confrontational relationships, primarily between the band and their potential fans. In "We Care," the lyrics are almost whiney, addressing the audience, "Thanx for calling us sell outs," and "We always thought you liked our band/I'm not talkin' about everybody/I'm sorry to waste a song." Similarly, in "The Kids Don't Like It," the singer complains that "We tried to do something new/It may sound real good/But I don't think we're getting through." The singer directs resentment at the "kids," who in all fairness should be showering...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MUSIC JAM | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...incongruous textures, styles and ambiguous messages. In an arrangement Fuck seems to favor, a single guitar strums slow chords, accompanied only by a simple snare beat and an extremely sparse bass line. Prodhumme sings without affectation or stylized humor about the inability of anyone to truly know themself: "Talkin' to a blind beauty about beauty/Talkin' to the red brigade about the blue/talking to a fairy tale/Let's talk about something else/We don't know ourselves/Me...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dirty Minds, Delicate Music | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...love it. The only town on the planet where a civility-campaign slogan could be, "You talkin' to me?" And the best part is that everyone in New York, with the lone exception of Giuliani, has caught the irony. "He's got a lese majeste personality," observed ex-Mayor Ed Koch. "If you say anything critical, off to the guillotine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizzoner The Hall Monitor | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Diff'rent Strokes:" "What `chu talkin' `bout Willis...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, | Title: '80s Television: It's All In the Family | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

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