Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again bares his tortured muse -- a silver-throated satyr torn between heaven and hell. But this time around, the paradox is addressed with a wry self-awareness that suggests he has struck a productive truce with his old demons. Chaste confections like And God Created Woman, Sweet Baby and Damn U are balanced by the pelvis-pounding grooves of The Max and the jazzy, snazzy Sexy M.F., which will be released in edited and unexpurgated versions...
...dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, but I'm pretty damn close. I've certainly got the family credentials to back up my claim: My mother sat in at the 1964 Democratic National Convention to protest the Vietnam War; my father marched on Washington for civil rights and my brother headed National College Democrats while he was in school...
...play itself was more troublesome. I hope that Jon Dorf's next play will be, as it ought, shorter and better. These two things are linked: the overwhelming fault of Ben was that it was too damn long. Dorf tried to capture the relationship between Ben and the Baxter, the restaurant owner, by making their dialogue strained, which led to deliberate pauses of up to 40 seconds between lines. Yes, I did time it. I had nothing better to do. Moreover, the restaurant guy was supposed to be a windbag, and Dorf went at the job too eagerly. His monologues...
From funky, bluesy, James Brown-inspired "SexyMF" to the grinding, hip-hop, jamming "The Max,"Prince is musically up to snuff. His tracks--likealways--are made to make you sweat on the dancefloor. The only real letdown is the loungelizardy"Damn U." It's Prince meets a Holiday Inn grandballroom...
...DEAFENING CHORUS HAS BEGUN: REGISTER AND Vote. It's the essence of our ! freedom. It's your civic duty. If you don't vote, you're lazy, ignorant, apathetic, damn near a traitor. This message, shrieked every four years, has not been persuasive. The percentage of eligible voters who go to the polls keeps dropping toward the 50% mark. But the result is greater hysteria...