Word: koole
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...history tutorial, we were debating whether one could have a truly comprehensive understanding of what life in America was like during the 1960s. And it was on this subject that my tutorial leader started raving about Tom Wolfe and his 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. My TF insisted that reading Wolfe's account of the hippie era was and still is the best way to really get a sense of what the 1960s were like; other historical sources paled in comparison. The book was the best source by far. Tom Wolfe was just that good...
...record: a few jams are overlong, and Bush's electric forays lack the nonpareil quality of his acoustic performances. Still, these folks set the bar pretty high, and a song list that includes a hell-bent-for-leather take on Bill Monroe's "Big Mon" alongside Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" is probably as good a way as any to sum up the contagiously good time clearly being...
...THOSE PARTIES in the "Boogie Down" South Bronx where hip-hop's founding fathers - Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata and Grandmaster Flash - first began delivering spoken rhymes over the break beats on funk and disco records sometime in the mid-'70s. Today the signature beats-and-rhymes combination of the musical art form they created is as ubiquitous in America's tony suburbs as in its forgotten housing projects, and has kids in distant parts of the world whose first language may be French or Japanese or Wolof chanting choruses inviting their friends to "get at me, dawg...
That depends on whom you listen to. Amazon's financial viability--or lack of it--is one of the most hotly debated issues in the industry. At the PacMed Center, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who hasn't drunk deep of the Bezos Kool-Aid. The fact that their fearless leader dished out extra options to any recent hires whose stock is underwater hasn't hurt. But beyond mere cash incentives lies a genuine faith in the thoughts of Chairman Jeff...
...Virginian with a deadly gift for describing human, or at least American, types. He has written about counterculture, astronauts, Wall Street and race in the New South. But the underlying theme is always manliness. Spending some 10 years writing each of his novels Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), The Right Stuff (1979), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and A Man in Full (1998) are decade-defining classics. They take a lot of work: Wolfe has long practiced "The New Journalism," which means, simply, that his 800-page tomes are exceptionally well-researched and appear--since...