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...songs. Black Album is the first of these releases, and it covers the same ground that multiplatinum rappers like Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. Dre explored years after it was recorded. Densely rhythmic and riddled with violent imagery, obscenities and the sound of gunshots, the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men -- a Clockwork Orange-style landscape ruled by drug dealers and petty hoods. Two of its songs, Le Grind and Dead on It, are explicit, sometimes monotonous odes not to sexual pleasure but to sexual conquest...
Winter's coming took on a symbolic chill for congressional Democrats as they eulogized 40 years of majority rule during a last lame-duck session, convened for GATT. Preparations for the bleak unknown began with Democratic House leadership elections. Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri briefly climbed out of his hospital bed to secure the nod as minority leader before returning for a gallbladder operation; he will be joined by newly elected minority whip David Bonior of Michigan and California's Vic Fazio, now the House Democratic caucus chairman. In the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota was voted...
...everything's back to normal. Rudenstine will apparently stay out of work for a couple more weeks. There are no guarantees that whatever caused the vomiting epidemic is gone. Factor in the heavy amount of work that piles up before winter break, and the campus mood seems a little bleak...
...resurrected to fulfill contractual obligations. It reveals just how ahead of his times Prince was in anticipating "the decidedly unlovesexy anger and violence in the gangster rap of the 1990s," says TIME Music Critic David Thigpen. Of the music, Thigpen notes that "the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men." And, while the anger in the music will probably hamper its success, it is nevertheless "a rich and complex record by one of pop's most talented, multifarious performers."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages; $19.95), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn...