Word: armchair
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...heads they are criticizing. For example, not only am I curating this exhibit, lecturing around the country, writing books, articles, etc., I now manage a young hip-hop DJ and four young hip-hop producers because I felt it important to engage people directly rather than be an armchair critic who ain't even trying to turn this apolitical madness around. It is SAFE, to me, to cling to Common (my homeboy), Mos Def (another one of my homeboys) and the other so-called socially conscious rappers. That is what the bohemians here in my Fort Greene neighborhood LOVE...
That fight is months away. "There will be plenty of chances to return to it before people go to the polls," Gore said last week, relaxing in a wicker armchair on the sunny wraparound porch of his official residence. "People like this prosperity and progress," he said, savoring the moment--and hoping the rest of us will...
...differences between "dancesport" and conventional sports are difficult to bridge, and will turn off many an average Cowboy-watching, beer guzzling armchair athlete. But Olympic recognition within the next decade seems possible, and if the event's popularity can survive the inevitable end of the swing and Latin pop crazes, there may be a future for ballroom in the NCAA...
Through books and films, Jacques-Yves Cousteau shared his close encounters with dolphins, sharks, whales and other sea creatures with armchair divers around the world. He was a showman nonpareil, as when he described his first scuba dive in his mellifluous French accent: "I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing." But the former French navy officer had a serious side. Cruising the oceans in his vessel Calypso, he became increasingly worried about their health and founded the Cousteau Society to sound the alarm...
...PATH OF LEWIS & CLARK ARMCHAIR PIONEERING BY ROAD AND RAIL...