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...White” lives up to its early promise, however. After “Blonde,” Subtle seem content to slip back into the intermittent mediocrity that keeps many of their Anticon cousins frustratingly out of the privileged pantheon of underground hip hop breakthrough stars (the major exceptions being Slug and former Deep Puddle Dynamics member/slam poet Sage Francis). The opening of “F.K.O.” sounds suspiciously like an overplayed insurance commercial, and mostly instrumental exercises “The Hook” and “Eyewash,” while pleasant enough...
...Wallach: Yeah, last year people certainly knew me—that is, people who didn’t know me personally—by the headband. But I didn’t like that because I like to be judged on the content of my character and on the quality of my artistic and intellectual productions, and I felt like being known by the headband was degrading, insulting, irresponsible, all of these things...
Norman would likely be content with a win, and the first Harvard sweep of Brown since...
...don’t assume that Meloy is content to approach his performance with intellectual distance. When he gets on stage, Meloy knows how to work a crowd...
...most astounding trick thus far has been its successful evasion of criticism from Christian media watchdog groups. Since Constantine’s release last Friday, the usual religiously conservative voices of outrage at pop-culture blasphemers have largely been silent. In recent years, movies taking similar liberties with religious content have drawn highly publicized protest: the 1999 comedy Dogma, for example, spurred the Catholic League to circulate petitions and run New York Times ads calling for a boycott of the movie. The outrage at 1973’s The Exorcist was so widespread and furious that the movie was banned...