Word: elasticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rapper-producer RZA has long enjoyed a reputation for being one of the most creative acts in hip-hop, and his new solo album lives up to his billing. A theme album, Bobby Digital looks at the exploits of a partially mechanized creature. As you might guess, given the B...
The first track fades away into a monotone distortion that is unexpectedly disturbed by a radio sample ripped directly from the airwaves of Boston's own WBCN, a moment early in the album that shows the unique and hilarious humor characteristic of Fatboy's vocal sampling. The dialogue between a...
His choice was preordained. After all, the lie in all its variations--the half-truth, the legalism, the critical omission, the elastic wordplay--is what he knows. Acrobatics--"I didn't inhale," the Flowers denial, the draft--are what brung him to the dance.
With Shepard's death, time seemed less elastic than we thought it was. The old outleaping moment of the race to the moon, science and technology's heroic counterpoint to the '60s' rage and mess, was now, as embodied in the first young all-American leaper, dead of leukemia at...
When James Madison was urging his young nation to refrain "from oppressing the minority," he was talking about "other sects," not other sexes. Shannon Ware, an engineer from St. Louis, Mo., who began life as Craig Ware but now lives as a woman, would grant that much. But since a...