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...Stacey,” one of many melodic tracks on the album. And in “Telegram,” Williams puts forth a cunning observation: “Hip-hop is lying on the side of the road, half-dead to itself, blood scrawled over its mangled flesh, like jazz.” It’s all the more surprising, then, that Williams has chosen to align himself with such a dead genre...
...idea of seeing him in the flesh is a totally different experience than listening to him off a recording, even though I’m not expecting him to be a great live performer,” said Gabriel E. Feingold...
...tank’s shell and an innumerable number of dead bodies disfigured by improvised explosive devices, I wondered why this never made it on the news. Whether you’re watching Fox, CNN or PBS you seldom see the contorted faces, the torn and charred flesh. We only get the most vague and abstract sense of what a war is: x dead, y injured, cartoonish maps showing where the fighting is going on. In the popular mind war is being turned into a largely abstract game...
Somehow in the chaos the flesh was ripped from my right shin, leaving a scrape and bruise resembling a long thin rock under my skin. On my way back out of the arena no one looks me straight in the eye, even the bartenders when I go to retrieve my complimentary Coke...
...Over the years, Hua's web of erotic and financial alliances unravels. Wealthy lovers tire of her imperiousness; the gigolo she supported (and whose exertions Zhang overheard that first day) has found younger flesh to exploit. She can't pay the tailor bills, yet Zhang remains her faithful couturier and courtier, flattering Hua on her waist size, whispering compliments to a woman in need of them and, finally, secretly, paying for the dingy hotel room she's forced to move into. Gratitude, or desperation, leads her to ask, "Do you have a wife yet?" "No." "How about...