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...Other Oscar speakers touched on the war more tangentially. A few, like Brody and Susan Sarandon, wore jewelry designer Henry Dunay's Bird of Peace ribbon; it's tr?s Hollywood to blend fashion and statement. Academy President Frank Pierson expressed the hope: "Let's have peace soon, and let us live without war." These Americans were joined by Spain's Almod?var, who pleaded for peace and "international legality," and by Kidman, the Australian who played English novelist Virginia Woolf in "The Hours": she proclaimed the crucial place of art in times of war. Chip by chip, nationality by nationality...
What do you get when you layer the soulful vocals of Destiny's Child over the grunge riffs of Nirvana? Or blend the energetic hip-hop of Salt-N-Pepa's Push It with the garage-rock ferocity of the Stooges' No Fun? The answer in both cases is a gold-plated, bona fide hit record...
This way of living—a blend of classic Buddhist introspection and contemporary social activism—is actually the essence of what Sulak, who goes by his first name in private as well as public, has tried to share with his compatriots and others around the globe in more than four decades of writing and public speaking...
...quickly. Inul (her real name is Ainul Rokhimah; Inul Daratista means "the girl with the breasts") was born poor in the East Java village of Kejapanan, Gempol. She started her performing career as a rock singer at age 12 but soon switched to dangdut, the beat-happy folk-pop blend of Indian, Arab and Malay music that has long been the sound of rural Indonesia. Originally the music of the lower class, complete with bawdy lyrics and sexually suggestive dancing, dangdut was cleaned up in the late 1970s and '80s when it was popularized by singers like Rhoma Irama...
...band’s music offers a rousing blend of oi!—a type of punk music—and Irish folk songs in a seemingly oil-and-water concoction that tastes surprisingly like a pint of Guinness. Their songs range from rowdy drinking anthems to rousing calls to arms...