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The makers of the new pop do not ignore this rage. They embrace, exploit and transform it. As the California rap group N.W.A. announces at the start of its album Straight Outta Compton: "You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge." What they know from the street...
In the wonderfully gross, fiercely moralistic movie Heathers, a nasty teen queen is asked, "Why are you such a megabitch?" Her answer: "Because I can be." Because of freedom of expression, comics and musicians can now be as nasty as they wanna be. And nasty is the word. In the...
Heat, broadcast nightly from New York City, offers late headlines and single-issue shows intended to mesmerize young news junkies. One recent edition addressed the transformation of the South African theater. The guests included the cast of the play Survival, musician Hugh Masakela and, from Johannesburg, novelist Nadine Gordimer. "We...
It was a perfect day for bananafish, but inclement for scholars and publishers. On Jan. 29, 1987, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, ruled that the reclusive author J.D. Salinger could prevent quotation of his unpublished letters by a biographer. The decision (which...
Besides writing and lecturing, Hartman directs an advanced institute for Judaic scholarship, where -- rare for Israel -- orthodox and secular thinkers study together in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Appended to the institute is a high school, an expression of Hartman's intention to transform Israeli religious thought from the bottom...