Word: label
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...politics. The charge that a candidate has flip-flopped on some position is not a political attack so much as a personal one. It is less about the issues being debated than about the instincts being revealed, about honor and honesty and nerve under fire. How tight the label sticks depends a lot on the impression voters have already formed, which means that a less well-known candidate can be vulnerable in ways a familiar...
...once sang of "Advertising signs that con you" is now a TV pitchman. Recruited for his "confidence and gravitas," according to a Victoria's Secret spokesman, Dylan plays his 1997 song Love Sick in the spot (in which, coincidentally, parts of models seem to defy gravitas). His record label called the ad "a great way to reach people with Bob's music." It's also a great way to hang out with lingerie models. We suspect Rod Stewart is already dialing his agent...
Even when Vladislav Delay was known for his obtuse abstractions on the Mille Plateaux label rather than his dancefloor-tinged output as Luomo, the influence of techno and house rhythms on his productions was clear. It was his debut Luomo album, Vocalcity, which perfected the marriage of experimentation and functionality, becoming an icon of the nascent subgenre known as “microhouse.” Tracks like “Tessio” and “Class” were radically insular for house music. Instead of satisfying that genre’s anthemic impulse, they called attention...
SOME YOUNGER WOMEN SEEM TO RUN FROM THE FEMINIST LABEL. HOW CAN YOU INSPIRE THEM TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS...
...younger women have a problem [with the label], it's only that they don't know yet that there's a problem. The kind of radicalization that happened to my generation when we tried to get a job happens to them 10 or 15 years into the job, when they fail to get promoted. Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say just wait...