Word: confession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restraint still isn't her strength. Alanislikes to confess, she likes to solve and workthrough her problems in words. And suddenly, itseems like she has the whole world as her musicalcanvas. After a trip to India and an explorationof Eastern religion, she offers us her perspectivenot only on love, but spirituality andenlightenment. Indian themes and phrases pop upall over the album, especially in "Thank U," thefirst single off the album currently saturatingairwaves. (If the "Indian experience" revitalizedMadonna's torpid career and reawakened Alanis,imagine what it could do for someone like CelineDion...
...resigned to my fate, I confess with humility, guilt and more than a little embarrassment: I have been Pussy-whipped...
...Talib Kweli are Black Star dropped, and the praise continues. One of my boys wrote me an e-mail message from upstate Massachussetts specifically to confess his amazement: "Yo this LP is ridiculous. Every track is plain dope. The beats are phat, the lyrics are intelligent, and yet it still has the feel of a demo." To this day I wonder how he managed to italicize using Pine...
...conversion was clearly voluntary, her "atonement" declaration rankles. (It also contradicts the current Pope's repeated description of the Jews as "elder brothers in faith.") But what most bothers the critics is the assumption that Stein's death resulted from her Catholicism. Witnesses reported that when she tried to confess her faith, an Auschwitz guard rebuffed her with the words, "You damned Jew." Thus her canonization strikes some as the hijacking of a martyr, the usurping of Jewish tragedy for Catholic purposes...
...some political campaign consultants who like to stay one jump ahead in strategic thinking must have prepared memos for candidates who could find themselves in the position of having to confess past dalliances. Consultants are paid, after all, to research such questions as whether some suddenly revealed naughtiness is more likely to be neutralized by referring to it as an "inappropriate relationship" or a "youthful indiscretion...