Word: cosmopolitans
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...Home” the sacrifices made in favor of a new, bigger sound are abundantly clear. Sandwiched between covers that, appropriately, book-end the album, the two Ward originals sound like compulsory nods towards a dead era. The bewilderingly-titled “Cosmopolitan Pap” is quaintly anachronistic enough, and Howe Gelb’s dexterous piano work gives it a foot-tapping honky-tonk vibe. Still, the antebellum imagery and feel of past albums like “End of Amnesia” and “Transfiguration of Vincent” were lost in the LP?...
...that doesn't stop her from shopping like the big spenders of Tokyo, Hong Kong or Shanghai. One Friday evening, Wang, 28, trolls down Chunxi Street, a jam-packed thoroughfare of flashing neon signs, McDonald's restaurants and boutiques, looking for the latest fashions she's admired in Cosmopolitan magazine...
Black identity was historically progressive in another important respect: from very early in the 19th century through the civil rights movement, it was strikingly cosmopolitan. Black leaders took a deep interest in oppressed peoples throughout the world. The Pan-African movement and early black nationalism were part of emerging notions of black solidarity. Blacks took deep pride in the Haitian revolution, and black American missionaries played an important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson...
...Peyton Manning finally slapping the can't-win-the-big-one monkey off his back. But in their revelry, Indianapolis residents - Hoosiers, as everyone in Indiana is called - seem to be throwing off their own ape: their city's image as a small, sleepy backyard cabin to Chicago's cosmopolitan, big-shouldered big house just three hours away...
...menu consists of salads, pizzas and-unusually for a place in this neck of the woods-sushi. It's all of a serviceable standard, but Fiesta's young, cosmopolitan atmosphere, the weekend DJ nights and the opportunities for people watching through expansive windows overlooking colorful Uritskogo Street-one of the city's main shopping drags-add plenty of seasoning. An added bonus is Arbatskii Dvorik, the cozy restaurant located upstairs from the café, which is named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there-a big plus...