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...Poetry is not in decline. it thrives outside academia, in popular song lyrics that millions of people, especially children, can recite by heart. One need only listen to the lyrics of today's hip-hop, rap, jazz and rock-music artists to hear poetry as it has been practiced since ancient times. Contemporary music lyrics can be vulgar, vivid, challenging, eloquent, passionate, inspiring and more-all the things that written poetry used to be. Many academics lament poetry's decline in readership. Who says poetry should be read? The presentation of poetry in written form has declined...
...real secret of Lucille's success is Lucille, 48, who comes off as a sort of Erin Brockovich character. An Air Force brat, she waitressed nights while raising three kids, hop-scotched around the world for her ex-husband's career and eventually accomplished a remarkable feat: starting and running a successful business, as an American - and as a woman, no less - in an Islamic country. After selling cupcakes to fellow expats in Cairo, she and an Egyptian friend opened a restaurant only to see the business and the friendship go bust. She hung on, learned Arabic and read...
...feel about all those hip-hop artists on MTV's Cribs who have Scarface shrines? -Ricky Baizas, Manila The most popular movie I've ever made is Scarface, all over the world. It's amazing to me. It's wonderful. We sometimes forget that it was Oliver Stone who wrote it. He is a political creature, and I think that is an undercurrent in the movie. And the combination of him and Brian De Palma made for this kind of fusion or explosion. It worked...
...doesn’t seem like the honeymoon has ended just yet. WHRB continues to fill a unique niche in the Boston-area music scene: although classical music and opera claim the most airtime, the station also plays an eclectic mix that includes jazz, underground rock, and hip hop. WHRB even has a “Hillbilly Music” program that has been a fixture on Saturday mornings for nearly five decades...
...original Harvard audience—the station’s news and sports coverage, though a small percentage of the broadcasts, are Harvard-centric, and various programs such as Record Hospital and The Darker Side cater to the more underground college crowd by playing indie rock and hip hop, respectively...