Word: difranco
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...capital of the __ Islands 10. Gov't agency banning pesticide chlorpyrifos 11. Tussaud's medium 16. She's at odds with 45-Down over campaign fund raising 20. Name on a 1973 decision 22. Beatnik home 23. Gore is proposing a $30 billion __ care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure 28. Churchillian gesture 29. Bloomers worn around the neck 30. Auto corp. that will extend health care to gay partners 31. Bill's partner 32. He spent more than $30 million on his New Jersey Senate nomination 34. High dudgeon 37. Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth...
...Nelson Mandela. In addition to his frequent readings around New York City and his musical theater work (most notably 1994's The Mystery of Love), Sundiata works a day job teaching literature at the New School for Social Research. Among his first students was indie rock queen Ani DiFranco, who later remarked that he taught her everything she knows about poetry. Released on DiFranco's Righteous Babe record label, longstoryshort is a lesson both in what it means to be black in America and in the possibilities available within the spoken word medium...
...know, Ani DiFranco, the Indigo Girls, Joni Mitchell...
...most part, we have left these straightforward categories behind, but in high school, when we were less sure of ourselves and our identities, you could learn a lot from this question. Certain music provided very helpful associations, some more far-reaching than others. Liking Ani DiFranco was code for liberal politics and perhaps long flowery skirts or overalls. Liking Marilyn Manson meant you wanted to scare people. Liking Dave Matthews meant very little, perhaps on purpose. Bands no one ever heard of had their prestige, and if they had scary names, you were one step ahead of the game...
...Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking out the Beastie Boys at age 16. As an established member of the Indigo-Girls-and-Ani-DiFranco crowd, I was fully aware of and attracted to the incongruity of my knowing all the words to "Sabotage." I was consciously choosing to assume a slightly unexpected identity. I never listened to that album very much, anyway...