Word: cred
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...dead Norwegian playwright to save the West End? To the relief of lovers of serious theater, no fewer than four plays by Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) have opened in London this summer. Granted, the lead performers have some Hollywood movies on their CVs, but they also have serious theater cred - Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Stewart know their way around the boards - and they're drawing rapturous reviews and full-house crowds. Industry-bible Variety magazine declared: "London stages a big comeback - a moribund theater climate has turned itself around." Stewart, best known as an X-Man and sometime...
...mere act of punishing a ball with a stick that brings about a truce in the eternal struggle between jock and nerd, and lures such luminaries as John Updike, Richard Ford, George Plimpton and the late Stephen Jay Gould to take their cuts. Are they slumming for street cred, trying to show that, like good postmodernists, they can switch-hit: both high-and lowbrow...
...internal critique, just a lot of very high-class production values ... not much art here, either?only a feeble sort of entertainment." Worried about his reputation as a serious artist in the West, Murakami rattles off a list of departures he is now taking to maintain his high-art cred. For starters, he says, he is exploring traditional Japanese materials and motifs?updated twists on Buddha statues, scrollwork, calligraphy, screen painting and a 300-year-old dye technique called yuzenzome...
That may ultimately make Enter the Matrix a little beyond the reach of less tech-savvy gamers, but it will increase the Internet buzz about the game--and the Wachowskis' street cred. If in the future no self-respecting sci-fi director can make a movie without producing a video game at the same time, blame the brothers. Like the film that spawned it, Enter the Matrix already has the makings of a cult classic. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
Long a deprecated choice of exercise, power walking is slowly gaining street cred. The recent publication of Fitness Walking for Dummies is one testament to the growing popularity of the sport. The power walking craze has also spawned new musical offerings, with genres ranging from techno versions of classical music to Baptist hymns, chosen for their ability to energize you just enough so that you peak out in that precarious state between briskly walking and jogging leisurely...