Word: though
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When Prince introduced his carbolic combination of Jimi Hendrix guitar overkill and contemporary dance rhythms, he seemed like just the man to take the musical past into the future. Recently, though, he seems stuck in his own deep groove. Graffiti Bridge, his newest album, is by turns intrepid and retrograde, bold and silly. That's not necessarily an unusual mix for Prince, but what's new -- and increasingly troublesome -- is his reliance on retreaded riffs and shopworn memories. Graffiti Bridge, the movie for which the album is the sound track, looks loopy, narcissistic and generally dispirited. It continues Prince...
...contrast with male-oriented Islam, the active membership in the typical black Christian church today is 70% female. But there are few women ministers, and apparently that is the way laywomen want it. "Though congregations are run by women in support roles, those women say they want to see a man as an authority figure," says James Costen, president of Atlanta's Interdenominational Theological Center. The issue may generate more controversy as the clergy shortage grows. For now, ambitious women preachers are joining white denominations or establishing their own independent congregations...
...decently, for an amateur. Though his prose sloshes with pomposity -- "reserved for my lone delectation" is a standard clunker -- his book does well because he sees what is admirable in the splendid anarchism of the great players. He tells the story, among many other good ones, of the late Jack Straus, who, while waiting in federal court to be tried on a tax charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only...
...struggle was not over. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the son of a venerated former President, broke with the P.R.I. and ran a populist campaign that drew unexpectedly strong support. Partisans insisted that Cardenas won and that the 50.3% of the vote credited to Salinas was the result of massive fraud. Though election chicanery is commonplace in Mexico, Salinas is the first President to have the legitimacy of his mandate widely questioned...
...major issues that were supposed to matter vanished behind the voting-booth curtain. By and large, incumbents won, hypocrites lost, ballot initiatives, worthy or not, were voted down, and two-thirds of those eligible to vote stayed home. Though both parties found something to celebrate, the Democrats fared better in preparing for the redistricting of House seats. Neither party emerged with a clear mandate to carry it to 1992 -- and George Bush turned out to be vulnerable after...