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...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, and immediately forced a rethinking of nearly every aspect of pop music...
...Long Way Around ("It's been two long years now/ Since the top of the world came crashing down") and the breakup song Everybody Knows ("I swore they'd never see me cry/ You'd never see me cry")--but they're only obvious if you look for them. Bitter End is a sing-along about fair-weather friends (the group fell out with a few lefty rockers who, amazingly, felt cheated of the nation's opprobrium) and even Lullaby is the rare song about kids well crafted enough that the childless could mistake it for a love song...
...Caimano, a multilayered portrait of a disintegrating marriage, the movie business and that certain billionaire politician. Potential praise at Cannes aside, Moretti has spent much of the past five years denouncing the very man whose presence inspired his film. Il Caimano debuted in March amid Berlusconi's bitter campaign against Romano Prodi. Although Moretti says he had no Michael Moore-style mission, there's no denying the singular timing. Il Caimano is not Moretti's first political film, but his anti-Berlusconi sentiments run so deep that for the first time he has left no ambiguity...
...Over the weekend a passel of Brownites and left-wingers came out and practically said it, openly agitating for Blair to leave quickly. In response, they were virulently denounced by Blairites as wreckers of party unity, raising disturbing echoes of the bitter factionalism that used to dog Labour. The conflagration surely made Blair regret the promise he made last year, in order to secure Brown's enthusiastic participation in the general election campaign, to stand down by the end of this parliament, which is expected to end with elections in 2009. For a British Prime Minister fixing a term starts...
...addition, carving a concentration system out of electives, as Florida has proposed, subverts the supposed objective of making high school more interesting. Electives are, by definition, optional courses designed to sweeten high school’s somewhat bitter cake with a refreshing break from the usual grind. Replacing electives with an academically intensive major transforms these invigorating breaks into further academic hoops to jump through, making the overall educational experience less stimulating for many students...