Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machines, cable television and the Internet, radio was the most efficient way to mobilize large crowds for protests and to make new converts through consciousness-raising. Activists say that despite new technologies, KPFA is still a vital element of their work. Its eclectic programming ranges from Noam Chomsky to hip...
...This hip-hop duo, like many other hard-core rap groups, writes songs about urban violence, street bravado, felonious gunplay, "baby fathers" and friends slain young. The music beneath Mobb Deep's lyrics, however, is oddly restful. The contrast between the jagged lyrics and the smooth rhythms that propel them gives the group's new record a thoughtful quality and a hard-to-resist listenability. One feels immersed and insulated...
...understood that its "insubstantial pageant" would fade. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," she quoted, "and our little life is rounded with a sleep." There were muffled sobs as Caroline's husband Edwin and her children Rose, 11, Tatiana, 9, and John, 6, lit candles and hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean sang, "It was time for me to go home/ And I'll be smiling in paradise," from the Jimmy Cliff reggae song Many Rivers to Cross...
...hipster kids and broadcast their bizarre observations and anecdotes: it's the stuff of an irritating jeans ad or a surprisingly winsome and funny animated series. "Inspired by" actual interviews with youngsters, the engaging boho characters do, well, nothing much, yet they don't grow dull or self-consciously hip. If the rambling plots and pitch-perfect dialogue remind one of Slacker, they also remind one of little else...
...easy to point fingers: We should have known something would go wrong when half of the security forces quit after the first day on the job. We should have known that a $12 pizza wouldn't go over too well. We should have known that the fans that misunderstood hip-hop and metal artists were likely to misunderstand the point of Woodstock. And we should have known better and left Woodstock alone...