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...hybrid, where instead of visiting the music with respect, we steal it and hit it with big hammers until it's a new mélange of rock and world rhythm." Plant doesn't just want to smash the boundaries of musical genre; he also wants to confront the idea that an ageing rock star has nothing new to sing. "I may be getting on a bit, but I'm a very inquisitive guy," he says. "And now I'm doing something that I didn't know I was capable of." On the track Tin Pan Valley - an electrifying...
...campus. Many questions are swirling through my head unanswered: How should I respond to verbal attacks next time? Should I show affection towards my male friends in public? Should I ignore slurs like “faggot” as I walk around on campus, or should I confront them? Which is more important, standing up for my community or preserving my health...
...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry ... All around the U.S., the lament is the same...
...stated goal of one of the organizations presenting the play. “Raisins, Not Virgins” is the fourth collaboration of the Harvard South Asian Association (SAA) and the Boston-based South Asian American Theater (SAATh). The program states that “SAATh resolves to confront all forms of fundamentalism dividing our world by race, religion, gender, class or nation,” and the play clearly succeeds in that goal...
...easy sentiment of the provoker; those who do not confront the audience with equal vigor have betrayed their talents to the desires of the mass...