Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heston sees his evolution as the result of years of reading. "I didn't change," he insists. "The Democratic Party slid to the left from right under me." He concedes one U-turn: in 1968, after the assassinations of King and Robert Kennedy, Heston endorsed Lyndon Johnson's 1968 gun-control law--a fact that his N.R.A. rivals blasted over the Internet in an effort to stave off his election. "I was young and foolish," Heston explains...
...former IRA fighters and Protestant paramilitaries trading quips and showing a remarkable degree of cooperation inside the new Northern Ireland assembly in spite of attempts by the Protestant opposition to destabalize it. In Northern Ireland, after all, politics have never been for the faint-hearted -- even if things do turn ugly in Portadown, the leaders committed to keeping the peace are not men easily spooked by the sight of blood...
...boost in the Nikkei index. But was this just electioneering -- Hashimoto made the crowd-pleasing comments at a campaign rally. The July 12 parliamentary election will be a referendum on how Hashimoto performed during this crisis. Unless his Liberal Democratic Party thrives in the election, Hashimoto's promises could turn out to be empty...
...choirgirl hotel, may have been greeted with some hesitation by many fans. Under the Pink, her sophomore album, rang with much of the same poignant energy that shot Little Earthquakes into stardom, but carried less fire and more contemplation. Amos' last album, Boys for Pele, took a completely different turn from the path so unabashedly carved out by her two previous release. Fraught with musical experimentation on Amos' new harpsichord and lyrics so bizarre that they must have been in code, "Pele" may have impressed avant-garde musical connoisseurs but left many of her long-time devotees confused...
...Spark," which opens the album and the video to which is featured fairly often on MTV and VH1, waltzes the listener into Amos' haunting world. But what a sweet seduction it is. "How many fates turn around in the overtime?" Amos asks. "Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find?" Most Tori devotees have spent enough time with her albums to interpret her Cheshire Cat-esque questions; and even if one hasn't, simply beginning to ponder them against the sweeping piano background is nothing short of enrapturing...