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TAMING THE TIGER...
...Grammy-winning Turbulent Indigo, Joni Mitchell's life has been anything but quiet. She divorced her husband and longtime producer Larry Klein and was reunited with her long-lost daughter, whom she had given up for adoption in the early '60s. Yet on her new, unsatisfying album Taming the Tiger, she seems unable to explore these fields of pain and affection. When she meditates on issues of loss and redemption in the song "Man From Mars," for instance, she doesn't delve at all into this tumult of her recent times. Instead, she talks about her cat. While...
...corruption of society. All this isn't so much unpleasant as just plain flimsy. The best she can muster, for example, to explain societal degradation is to insist simplistically that "lawyers and loan sharks/are laying America to waste." There are small pleasures to be had on Taming the Tiger, like Mitchell's confidently unconventional melodies, her dark and smoke-ravaged voice and the occasional appearances of deft saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Still, one can't help but wonder what happened to Joni Mitchell since we lost her 20 years ago. On Taming the Tiger, at least, she is nowhere...
...Just two years ago I was addressing Harvard in very different circumstances," he said. "[now-deposed Indonesian president] Suharto and the Asian Tiger myth made Indonesia appear invincible [at the time...
...told that the destruction of our economies will be good for us in the long term. How do we tell the unemployed millions, the bankrupt banks and busted companies that their misfortunes are good for them and their nations? How do we tell a man being devoured by a tiger that he is really helping preserve a treasured species...