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...confession format. Gore goofed by merely shaking hands ("No kiss?" Oprah wondered aloud). Worse, he pulled the curtain back only on Tipper's depression, rather than serving up any dark night of his own soul. Bush, on the other hand, delivered the emotional arc Oprah's fans tune in for, speaking of God and his battle with alcohol. The money shot was a tear in his eye, better even than Clinton's lip biting, as he described Laura's difficult pregnancy. His eyes still glistened after the commercial break...
...There are a few key ingredients to a musical moment. It's a cathartic moment, where we all let go a little bit, drop our guards and our standards. The song involved has to be slightly cheesy or overly familiar, but nonetheless a guilty pleasure, the kind of tune we sing in our showers when there are no people around. They can also feature the kind of songs we sing in our showers when there are people around, because if you're the sort of person that takes group showers, hey, you're not going to get all self-conscious...
...Impressive Instant" will get even the stodgiest of boys on the dance floor and "Runaway Lover" takes the momentum and spins another crisp (if slightly repetitive) club tune. William Orbit returns to contribute "Amazing," an even more souped up variation on the melody of "Beautiful Stranger...
...swimmers climb out of the pool after a flat-out 200 meters, Tommy Roe singing "Dizzy, my head is spinning" booms around the hall. And especially for the crowds coming out of events, meandering down the Olympic Boulevard looking for the quickest route to the buses, the tune of choice is the old Diana Ross hit "Do You Know Where You're Going...
...cracks in it, which both prove its age and add to its value. Her voice's tensile strength, born of suffering and surviving, makes her not just an interpreter of pain but a witness to it, as in Bang the Drum Slowly, about her late father, or the title tune, about a childhood friend with a run of bad luck ("One thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em/ You keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom"). Her glottal throb on these dozen tunes purifies the funereal sentiments...