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...From This Moment On," White's number one duet with Shania Twain, is also on the album and offers a warm, romantic break from the more panging "Someone Else's Star," in which White plaintively and intimately expresses a longing that is not answered until his 1999 "Heaven Sent." Also off the Between Now and Forever album are "I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore" and "So Much Pretending," both top singles in which White mastered his ability to create love songs of symphonic forces. Greatest Hits, full of easy-going songs with endearing vulnerability and expressive vocals, will...
...hard for an American to understand just how much sports means to these people. I mean, we're pretty sports-crazed, but nothing like this. "A land were sport is sacred," Henry Lawson called it. (They like to call Lawson "Australia's Mark Twain," but he's no Mark Twain. Actually, he's pretty sentimental and pedestrian.) Anyway, Lawson got that one right, about sports. Since colonial days, when diggers on the goldfields made sure they always had time at the end of the day for a football match or a bare-knuckle fight, Australia has cherished games...
Vidal compares himself with Mark Twain and Henry James, other writers who looked askance at American imperial expansion. He would have preferred to play a role in turning back this progress but instead became its disapproving chronicler. Regrets, he has a few, but he also takes comfort in the role that fate assigned him: "Writers have to tell the truth as they see it, and politicians must never give the game away." In his writing, the game goes...
...venues there is a great selection of appropriately, or maybe inappropriately, chosen themes. Waiting for the start of competitions, audiences hear Robbie Williams inviting "Let Me Entertain You" or Jennifer Lopez's "Waiting for Tonight." As the elfin, prepubescent girl gymnasts march out, Shania Twain raunchily sings "Man, I feel like a woman." At softball and volleyball the loudspeakers welcome teams from the other side of the world with "We've come a long, long way together/Through the hard times and the good", from Fatboy Slim's "Praise...
...Vidal compares himself with Mark Twain and Henry James, other writers who looked askance at American imperial expansion. He would have preferred to play a role in turning back this progress but instead became its disapproving chronicler. Regrets, he has a few, but he also takes comfort in the role that fate assigned him: "Writers have to tell the truth as they see it, and politicians must never give the game away." In his writing, the game goes on. -With reporting by Curtis Ellis/New York