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Elect Bill Youngkin Judge
85th District Court
A professor once sfated thaf
"Good judgement comes from
experience. Experience comes from
the decisions you make in life."
I have made those decisions for
the last twenty-two years of my trial
career. That Experience provides
me with the Good Judgement
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About Bill Youngkin
★ Aggie, Class of '69
• Head Yell Leader
• Ross Volunfeer/Corp of Cadets
★ Vietnam Veteran
★ Graduate Baylor Law School
★ Partner in the Law Firm of Youngkin, Catlin, Bryan,
Stacy & Dillard
★ Past President Brazos County Bar Association 1 985-86
★ Past President of the Association of Former Students - 1 991
★ Current Member of the Executive Committee of the
1 2th Man Foundation
★ Daughter Libby, Class of '00 - Chi Omega Sorority
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A.! M.
Correction
In Thursday’s Battalion, a
story on page 3 should
have included Russian
National Ballet The Sleep
ing Beauty and Les
Miserables, featuring the
original national tour cast.
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This Week’s Theme: What is your most
embarrassing nionicMitV
i i When I was three, I peed in tin* fountain at
the mall. Guess 1 was a slow learner when
it came to potty training."
— Ben 1 hidler
Freshman ocean engineering major
Madonna’s {(ay q/Jjg'htsh
with sounds of love, spiritm\
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Chris
Martin
staff writer
aturity or bust. It’s a
sentiment that has
haunted Madonna
with each passing year. Pop
culture has few recovery
wards, and as the proverbial
statement goes, ‘‘she who hes
itates is lost.”
For many Madonna is a rel
ic, a historical marker of high
school dances, weekend
cruising and bus trips. People
copied her bracelets, her flo
ral-print pants, her ponytail,
her conquer-the-world attitude and God forbid
— her cornea-poking cones.
But then something funny happened. Kids
grew up and put those days behind them.
Madonna joined Tiffany, Debbie and Martika in
the great teeny-bopper graveyard in the backseat
of a Cougar.
If the body is a temple, then Madonna is the
Haiga Sophia. She built an empire with a thrust
of her hips and peeks at her cleavage. Her confi
dence won over the hearts of millions who strug
gled with their own developing bodies and self
identities. It’s a great way to build an empire, but
like so many before, the time came for a collapse.
The mark of a great artist is what’s left in the
rubble when this happens. A great example is the
Beatles, a bad example is the Monkees. Madon
na’s last big effort, Bedtime Stories, was the last
stand for the sexual siren. Age, motherhood and
fickle new pop tastes have all closed in. The re
sult? Madonna offers Ray of Light.
Past years have seen Madonna calling the
shots with each new album. Every new single was
a challenge to the status quo. Ray of Light,
Madonna’s techno-inspired latest, unfortunately
feels reactionary instead of revolutionary. Instead
of driving, Madonna just hopped on a bus popu
lated by kids over half her age, making great elec-
Ray of Light
Madonna
Maverick/Warner
Critique: B+
tronic albums in their bedrooms fore
her daily rate. It’s a sad picture, buide
darkness there is a ray of light.
Madonna’s music has never been:
lessness. A quick listen to the old stu:
her flavor-of-the-moinent productio:
What she is about, however, is unpart
credibility. The new songs, although
bathed in 808 loops and synth padn
different. The empress has new clothe
still the empress.
The good news is that Madonna/
an almost negligent artistic distance
' new album, an apex which she has' j
grown into. When she sang "1 lolida ,
Don’t Preach,” she was a character
songs are like diary confessions. “I k
for love / Without a second thought
came a silly game” she sings in ‘ Drc
/ Substitute for Love.”
Many of the songs reflect Madoi - K
found spiritualism and family expand
Star” is a soft prayer of thanksgiving!
daughter Lourdes, while “Sky Fits Hes
of the most outstanding tracks, pondt
beauty of balance, such as the relatior
tween a mother and child.
Although much more introspective.^
has moments of joy, especially on thee
sung with Bjork-like extremities of rani
hardly sound like Madonna. Ill#
The bad news is that electronical
room for superstars. The beats rulew
solute power. Although “techno” hast
buzz for Ray of Light, the music never
shines the star. Rather than a techno< $3 -|
with Madonna, she fortunately madt GC
na album with techno. yc
One important question to askis "W5f:
artist here?” Does the album float solely
name of Madonna? Actually, the newso-tP 5
squarely on t he shoulders of producer! ^
Orbit and a rotating cast of electronicae
Like Beck’s Odelay, paradigms rarelyocce!
solitude anymore. E/
It’s too bad the album wasn’t called !ij
and Child,” complete with medievalfre>i E '
art. Oh well. at
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