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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...
Also impressive was their willingness to earn their cred and captivate their audience without conspicuously dropping the H-bomb. No one in the crowd, aside from the Harvard students (and there was a solid contingent there) seemed to know they were an all-Harvard act. Aside from some shout-outs to “HU” toward the end of their set, Justice League didn’t refer to Harvard, unless one can read into the lyrics of one of their songs: “Class dismissed/You aint rappin this/You aint got the aptitude/To pass the test...
...corporate dividends, he dispatched his new economics chief, Stephen Friedman, to New York City to wave it under the noses of such bankers as UBS America chairman Donald Marron and brokerage legend Muriel Siebert. Friedman is a polished pinstriper, a former Goldman Sachs chairman with the kind of Street cred the Administration lacked before purging its economic team last month. In four meetings, Friedman did as much listening as talking, knowing enough not to insult his former brethren with a lecture. And the financiers loved the message. Of course, it could have been delivered by a pizza-delivery...
...conversation was taken up with an agonized appraisal of the Prince's proper role, together with much royal muttering (conventional wisdom in 1985) that Britain had lost the dynamism for which it once was famous. I begged to differ, and implored the Prince to consider the new, entrepreneurial, street-cred economy being created at that very moment in the clubs and streets, the fashion houses and TV studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden. I remember to this day the look of utter incomprehension on the Prince's face as I made my case. Only later...