Word: titular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Folds Five have come of age. Their moody new release is a conceptual drift through the experience of their titular hero, a disconnected observer who feels more than he lets on. And in the delicate construction here, the band proves the same is true of itself. Messner aches with lush compositions that expand both BFF's sound (string arrangements accompany their trademark piano/bass/drum combination) and their identity. Sure, "punk rock for sissies" was a fun label for their often-silly post-kitsch nods to pissed-off ex-boyfriends and love-struck goofballs, but it hardly accommodates the stylish, lingering sway...
Following LOUIS FARRAKHAN's recent surgery, speculation abounds about who will become the Nation of Islam's next titular and spiritual leader. Longtime Farrakhan friend and adviser Akbar Muhammad, the Nation of Islam's international representative, who lives in Ghana, was in the U.S. last week to visit the hospitalized Muslim leader. Muhammad told TIME that during Farrakhan's four-to-six-month medical leave, the organization will be headed by the National Board of Laborers, a group chaired by Farrakhan's chief of staff and son-in-law Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad. Sources close to the Nation of Islam...
...soon as we buy into some institution, Harvard or any other, we risk falling into the insidious trap of believing that titular or institutional recognition is an honest and perfect assessment of worth. We risk believing that the first place graduate of Yale Law School is the best young lawyer in the country, that the MVP is the best athlete in the league, or that the filmmaker with the Academy Award made the best movie of the year...
...some are excellent; this is more or less the way it's been since 1972. In "Nineteen in Naples," Richman ruefully examines his youthful anger ("I didn't like this and I didn't like that/I was such a little brat"), but the song is musically unimpressive. The titular "I'm So Confused" makes better use of the irritating synthesizers than most other songs on the album. Producer Ric Ocasek has stuck the distracting synths in everywhere, apparently longing for his days in the Cars with ex-Modern Lovers drummer Jerry Harrison. "Love Me Like I Love" is similar...
...painfully funny and poignant memoir about life in the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan (known best as a family running short on both money and sanity). The book centers specifically on the neurotic and manic depressive genius of Robert Lowell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet-cum-activist and titular "first cousin" of the author's mother (hence the author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary predecessor, confronting the very madcap hypocrisy running through her bloodline that Lowell did in his poetry...