Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...moments later, Sade slips into a small dressing room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...know what it was to be black," she sings, "'Til they gave him his change but didn't want to touch his hand." On "Slave Song," she draws inspiration from the suffering of her African ancestors: "Teach my beloved children who've been enslaved/ to reach for the light continually." But just as prayers are ultimately about love, Sade's CD is suffused with that emotion as well. Not groping adolescent love but reflective, mature love in various forms. "The Sweetest Gift" explores love between a mother and a daughter (Sade wrote it for Ila); "King of Sorrow...
...additions to the Hornsby repertoire include "The End of the Innocence," which, although co-penned by Hornsby, was originally recorded by Don Henley. Overall, Here Come the Noise Makers presents both a retrospective of Hornsby's 15-year musical career and puts an old friend in a whole new light. B+ -Krisa R. Benskin...
Especially in the light of the upcoming climate summit in The Hague later this month, it is finally time for Congress to face this reality. The climate meeting next month will bring together representatives of roughly 150 countries with the goal of working out further details of the Kyoto Protocol which they all signed in 1997. The protocol, however, has not been ratified by any industrialized country. Many European countries have made their ratification dependent on the decision reached in the U.S. Congress, since they feel they should not have to agree to cut emissions if the biggest polluter...
...player in the country--she can stick-handle and dish and shoot from anywhere in the offensive zone. Francisco (14 g, 36 a), who finished sixth in the league in scoring last year, is incredibly aggressive around the crease and will find a way to tip the puck and light the lamp...