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...necessarily going to be content." The hurt and the hope are evident in her new album's last cut, Shadow of Doubt, in which Raitt sounds like a Mississippi field hand, bent by age and travail: "Oh but Lord no/ Don't make it easy/ Keep me workin'/ 'Til I work it on out/ Just please, please/ Shine enough light on me/ 'Til I'm free from/ This shadow of doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Bonnie and the Blues | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...Pink, who won't tip, snarls back at the guys when they point out that waiterssing is a hard job. He snaps, "So's workin' at McDonald's, but you don't feel the need to tip them. They're servin' ya food, so you should tip'em. But no, society says tip these guys over here, but not those guys over there. That's bullshit...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: 'Reservoir Dogs' Has Lots of Bite | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...proletariat passion of Black 47's songs that make the group stand out. "So hold on to your rifles, boys, don't give up your dream/ Of a Republic for the workin' class, economic liberty," Kirwan sings on the cut James Connolly. There's morbid humor too, as on the semiautobiographical song Maria's Wedding, about a drunk, frustrated suitor who crashes an ex- girlfriend's nuptials, promising the bride he'll quit his band and "even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Me, I'm Irish | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...displaced by yuppified drinkers who, in the words of a Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...attorney in the General Counsel'sOffice-which handles all of Harvard's legalwork--said that Taylor is expected to have a widevariety of duties when she returns there. Theattorney said that "she may also continue her workin labor and personnel matters...

Author: By Ryan Schneider, | Title: Taylor Returns to Counsel's Office | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

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