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There are pretty songs on the album—“Achilles Heel” and “Just Hold On” were both successful singles for Toploader back home. Some songs on the album retain an aesthetic in this vein, others add to more sophisticated elements such as electric orchestration—“Breathe” and “Dancing in the Moonlight” are album highlights...
...will look as if he’s saying, “His ass is mine!” but what you’ll hear is, “His butt is mine!” It’s painfully obvious and very funny. In a similar vein, Al Green actually stops by for a cameo performance and proceeds to do some of the worst lip-synching I have ever seen. It’s sad to see the Reverend making a fool out of himself, but at the same time he adds some much needed comic relief...
After the ballet segment, the show switches gears to a more modern vein with “Still Rising,” choreographed by Shelby Braxton-Brooks ’03. The background music to the dancing alternates between poetry from Maya Angelou, music from Sweet Honey in the Rock and silence. Thirteen girls interpret the poetry of Angelou (which they also deliver vocally) with their movements in an attempt, according to the program, to “connect the spoken word with the moving...
...experimenting with a full band, whose bluster was in sharp contrast to the fiery solo piano that had been Amos’ trademark. The “Strange Little Tour,” as it was called, marked a return to the girl-with-a-piano paradigm. In that vein, only three of the songs Amos played that night were from Strange Little Girls, opting instead to grant a grateful audience their early album favorites and several obscure, much-loved b-sides...
Much in the vein of Douglas, the past two weeks have seen Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, Terry McAuliffe, and countless other national leaders of the Democratic Party align themselves squarely behind the president. Even the Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered effusive praise for the president’s performance under these most extraordinary circumstances...