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Nearly God is the latest incarnation of Tricky, the musician and producer wunderkind responsible for Maxinquaye. Maxinquaye was an ambitious and multifacted studio project, drawing on influences ranging from Public Enemy to Issac Hayes. And if Portishead didn't manage to hammer the seductive groove from "Ike's Rap" into...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Tricky Reaches Near Perfection With Nearly God | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

A defense of this practice might be that the editors of the New Living Translation are hardly alone. Most of the new Bibles flooding the market display a keen solicitude for their target readers, protecting them from tricky phrases that might call for a moment's reflection or, in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POWER OF BABBLE | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

This season offers an unusually full sophomore class, including singer Sheryl Crow, a fresh face three years ago. Her second album, bluntly titled Sheryl Crow and due out Sept. 24, is a sometimes amusing, mostly blah disc that may move units but doesn't move the soul. In better form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALL PREVIEW | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Somewhat comically, in our political culture of grievance, almost no one is willing to admit that times actually are pretty good. Polls show the citizenry fairly gloomy about general economic prospects even while conceding that their own prospects are O.K. Republicans are reduced to grumbling that modest, steady growth is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: SITTING PRETTY | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

It is perhaps fitting that the President whom his enemies labeled "Tricky Dick" lived to pass judgment on the President known as "Slick Willy." Throughout the 1992 campaign, Nixon denigrated Clinton: "He's Dogpatch...Even his wife is for him only because he is her ticket to power...[He] will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HER MASTER'S VOICE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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