Word: beate
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...changing everything. First he updated Woody Guthrie's notion of the topical folk song and made it his own, creating anthems that were the sound track to the early-'60s Civil Rights movement. Then he smartly ransacked the tropes of every hip lyricist from Bertolt Brecht to the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then adapted his righteous belligerence to the standard love song, upending it into airs of bitter, knowing rejection. When he tired of being the preeminent folkie, and the poster boy for political causes, he plugged himself in, merging the Beats with the beat...
...being so tantalizingly close to the game is torture enough. One of the captives debates with a reluctant guard about the logic of Iran's law banning women from stadiums. "There are lots of men in there," he argues. "They'll be cursing and swearing." Without missing a beat, she replies: "We promise not to listen." In his newest movie Offside (released in Britain on June 9, the first day of the World Cup), Iranian director Jafar Panahi uses such back-and-forth to highlight the absurdity of a rule that doesn't allow women to enjoy the beautiful game...
...love him has to do with his battle to contain the city's crime rate. The number of murders this year has nearly doubled last year's count for the same period. There are problems with street robberies and what the cops call rat packers, gangs of kids who beat up people on buses and then head back to school to brag about it. The local jails are sometimes too full to permit arrests for certain crimes. A local television report recently quoted an Oakland police estimate that one-fourth of the city's prostitutes were underage. Crime has dropped...
Successful journalism is a business based on public trust, and the quest for objective reporting is why papers like this one have conflict-of-interest policies. In the big leagues, reporters on the political beat don’t participate in advocacy efforts, they don’t give money to campaigns, and many of them don’t even vote...
...searing afternoon.” “We are not cowards, we are not spineless, and we are not with you,” said anthropology chair Arthur Kleinman. Ruth R. Wisse, a Yiddish literature professor, called it “a show trial to beat all show trials...