Word: ambiente
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...measure of the ambient racism that we find it so hard to believe that affirmative action may actually be doing something right: ensuring that the best guy gets the job, regardless of that guy's race or sex. Eventually, when the occupational hierarchy is so thoroughly integrated that it no longer makes sense for our subconscious minds to invest the notion of competence with a particular skin color or type of genitalia, affirmative action can indeed be cast aside like training wheels...
...move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie drug Ecstasy are shipped overnight throughout the merchandise mart that is America...
More than any other factor, male violence against women animates the anger against men. That violence (murder, rape, battering) is in everyone's mind -- an ambient viciousness that bewilders and angers and frightens men -- though never as much as it terrifies women...
Although a number of efforts have been directed at reducing the levels of ozone in the environment, daily measured concentrations often still exceed the National Ambient Air Quality Standard...
...disc excels, thanks to Stan Demeski's metronomic precision drumming and hooking fills, Dean Wareham's angelic voice, intriguing guitar lines and lyrics, and Justin Harwood's punchy bass. The sound has elements of the Feelies' best ambient effort--The Good Earth from 1986--and Galaxie 500's dreamy voices and guitars...