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Then along came Larry King. King, in USA Today, reinvented the concept of the column, making it the easiest job in the world. Using the classic three-dot format and replacing information with random opinions, he filled columns with sentences like these: "Does anybody know how to bake strawberry longcake?...I hate digital clocks...If George Shearing is playing piano, I'm listening to the piano...Whoever invented the paper clip is a genius...Someday they'll send pizza pies to your house like faxes, and boy will that make money." By looking inside instead of outside, King effectively...
Actually, yes. Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong would have been excellent, if somewhat predictable choices. Both have won more than Iverson, both carry themselves with classic grace and dignity. But their sports do not test the full range of what most Americans consider athleticism. They're specialists; what's more, in sports that don't say much about our national character...
...group delivered the kind of musical shock that young Cubans may one day remember with the same fondness that American baby boomers feel when they recall first hearing Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Two years ago, Orishas introduced a new song, 537 Cuba, that transformed the stately Cuban classic Chan Chan (a universally recognized tune among Cubans, like Guantanamera) into a rollicking American-style hip-hop anthem. The song struck a chord; young fans began eagerly trading bootleg tapes of the group and flocking to their concerts. Orishas' fame rose so rapidly that last year the group was invited...
...other words, do you convince listeners with high-tech jobs and PlayStations that they're working on Maggie's farm? Through the '90s, that was essentially the mission of Rage Against the Machine, which covered that Dylan classic on its last album, Renegades (2000). Apropos of another of its Renegades covers, Kick Out the Jams, Rage aimed to be a modern-day MC5, using hard-edged music to ram through a hard-nosed message that was less about peace and love than about old-fashioned, a-pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also...
...maps onto a global one, the political is not only personal but economic, and her enemies, "the mighty multinationals/have monopolized the oxygen/so it's as easy as breathing/for us all to participate." In this light, you could argue that DiFranco's greatest political act as a musician was a classic Marxist one: seizing the means of production, namely her own Righteous Babe record label. Protest music is indeed alive, in some places even thriving. And in a funny way, it turns out it really is about the Benjamins...