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...packed into Kojima's unadorned prose. Shunsuke is simultaneously dazzled and exasperated by his wife's quest for satisfaction, admiring and despairing of American exuberance, fascinated and thwarted by modern gadgetry. The harder he tries to accommodate the new world, the more it punishes him. His wife becomes deathly ill, his children rebel, his friends snicker behind his back. "We're all together and our lives are filled with pain," he insists when the going gets roughest. That's only half right: at some moment between the occupation and the semiconductor, the Japanese ideal of togetherness faded. Now, as Kojima...
...Alan Light is fascinated by this story of the three white Jewish kids from New York City who rose to prominence as the first hip-hop group with a number one album on the billboard charts, 1987’s “License to Ill.” To satisfy his interest, the former editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin decided to go straight to the sources, interviewing all the key participants for his new oral history of the Beasties, “The Skills to Pay the Bills...
...chronologically organized book gets past the seminal sampling cerebral sounds of “Paul’s Boutique,” Light seems to lose interest. By the stories of the making of “Ill Communication,” the urgency of the narrative seems completely lost. Even the resurgence around 1998’s “Hello Nasty” is curt and obtuse. There is no sense that in the Beasties’ decision to found a record label or work with pioneering samplers the Dust Brothers matters as much as their collaborations with...
...express his opposition to the war in Iraq. McGovern, who first backed Patrick’s bid last June, was one of the first in a series of high-profile figures to endorse Patrick, a former Dunster House resident. Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., and two former Clinton administration labor secretaries, Robert Reich and Alexis Herman, have also backed Patrick’s candidacy. Patrick served as the top civil rights enforcement official in the Clinton Justice Department. According to the latest Boston Globe poll, Patrick is gaining ground but still faces an uphill battle against Democratic frontrunner Thomas Reilly...
ANDREW BOUTHILET Evanston, Ill...