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...damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor to express a desire for social upheaval, Speech and Arrested Development clearly believe their...
...bass, drums and keyboards, and with a loud scream put the pedal to the metal and once again blaze their own road. Some of the songs are indeed catchy, but don't expect them to become Top 40 fodder, as neither the band's turbulent sound nor its acerbic wit has been sacrificed...
...lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good to get back to the bloody basics with a little style and self-satirizing wit...
Discussing her plans for the magazine -- which she reads "some of, every third or fourth issue" -- Brown says it "will be cerebral but more relevant, timely. I want it to have an edge, to be irreverent at times. And I hope to encourage wit." Brown insists, however, that the magazine's characteristic musing, whimsical streak will not disappear. "The New Yorker must always have the ruminative, the eccentric piece." How about photography, that heresy to true New Yorker believers? Yes, occasionally -- but not as illustration; and no color. (For what it is worth, before the week was out Brown...
...lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things out, deciding what has value and what doesn't." The Adjuster has value: it finds wit and melancholy in all these warty souls...