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Grandma better get ready to boogie. From the very first cascading wooooo! on I Wanna Dance, the new album showcases a Whitney Houston who sings bolder, blacker, badder. This Whitney doesn't just want to dance with somebody, she wants "to feel the heat with somebody," and the vocal scorches. The rest of the album -- a mixture of party songs and love songs -- displays its star's subtler readings, greater vocal nuance, more dynamism and control. On the jazzy ballad Just the Lonely Talking, she eases into an adventurous scat duet with an alto sax. But she can still sing...
Nonetheless, long-range prospects are at best uncertain. One looming threat ) emanates from a vocal group that wants to rally the 518,000 PTL Partners in order to oust Falwell. Like the Bakkers, these protesters are Pentecostals and Charismatics, believers in "gifts" of the Holy Spirit, such as healing and speaking in tongues. As a Fundamentalist Baptist, Falwell is doctrinally opposed to these practices, and the five-member PTL board he appointed has no Pentecostal representatives. The loudest of the anti-Falwell group is the Rev. Mike Evans of Fort Worth, who thinks the chastened Bakker "has every right...
...violent turn. In recent months, after all, one faction of Taiwan's increasingly active opposition movement has urged more confrontations to demand an end to 39 years of martial law. Wearing green headbands and carrying balloons with such slogans as LIFT MARTIAL LAW, RETURN TO THE CONSTITUTION, 3,000 vocal opposition supporters filled the plaza in front of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and listened to opposition leaders denounce the Kuomintang regime of President Chiang Ching...
Tribe said that Bok's decision to intervene onbehalf of a small vocal minority in the Trubekcase would necessitate a reappraisal of the Daltondecision...
...understand Nakasone's political troubles because he has plenty of his own in the wake of the Iran-contra scandal. In addition, Reagan has to deal with a Congress that has become increasingly protectionist. As America's trade deficit has steadily grown, political leaders have become more and more vocal in their demands for a halt in Japanese imports. Tokyo last week released new figures showing that Japan's worldwide trade surplus ballooned to an astonishing $101.4 billion in the twelve-month period that ended in March. Some $52 billion of that bulge came from trade with...