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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...material, the third disc should satisfy that urge. If your urges extend beyond simple musical desires, obscure tunes such as "I Love U in Me," and "Scarlet Pussy" leave little to the imagination. Somewhere in Prince's songs there are real lyrics floating around, but rather than try to unearth them, enjoy yourself by listening to all of the manifold ways in which he manages to express sexual desire as well as to well, express it. And although the album's tracks progress in no particular order, the extensive liner notes provide a useful play-by-play of Prince...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Pushing The Limits of Music and Taste | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

...what happens when language fails." Such personal complications are what decide and entangle the roots of history. It is often at this point that fiction begins to enter into the picture. Embarrassing realities are suppressed by all characters on all sides, and it is Zenia's particular expertise to unearth these and turn them against those who had considered her a friend. Zenia's aura is big enough and bad enough for her to signal inevitable ruin for any hapless prospect on her list...

Author: By Ann M. Mikkelsen, | Title: Fairy Tales Unbridled | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

Workers laying a new sewer line in a Cairo suburb uncover foundations of a 4,600-year-old working-class neighborhood; a subway project in Rome reveals a long-dead Pope's toothbrush; improvements in Red Square during the twilight of the Soviet empire unearth wooden homes built before Moscow had its first prince in the 13th century. In the next millennium, construction workers in Cairo, Rome and Moscow will no doubt be puzzling over traces of current cultures. As the triumphant remake the world's cities, the shards of the vanquished are literally trodden into the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megacities | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...ARCHAEOLOGISTS unearth the trash form the past they'll discover More about the lifestyle of colonial undergraduate. And very old Harvard rules and regulations give some additional clues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING IT BY THE RULES, COLONIAL STYLE | 7/10/1992 | See Source »

...when the big 25th comes around and I feel like an old man, I'll just unearth my 1978 Ron Guidry and sniff him for all he's worth. Only time will smell...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: It's Just Not in the Cards | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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