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...popular culture now: thrashing in the mosh pit in front of the stage, from which security people would occasionally rescue a naked girl, her clothes ripped away by enthusiasts as she incautiously body-surfed the pit. From the stage, Fred Durst, singer for the aggressively untalented rap-metal band Limp Bizkit, made it explicit: he instructed the audience to "start some s___." Which some of the audience obediently did, scaling the sound tower and ripping away the plywood boards protecting electronic equipment...
...British band Manic Street Preachers. The group offers up big, melodic, cathedral-filling songs that clearly have social and spiritual aspirations beyond just rocking the house: one of the tracks is bluntly titled If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next. A few numbers are a bit limp, but when this group is on, it can make you believe that rock is sacred...
...anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment, the journalist's software-entrepreneur wife, the wife's vulpine media-mogul boss--alternately cavort and limp through the very near future, you get deep inside the tent of both old and new media, where the egos are as large and as tasteless as the limos...
Trouble is, few people disagree with the moral imperative of a war grounded in humanitarian principles. Milosevic's relentless pogrom in Kosovo ensures that. But from Day One, NATO's promise of victory by air power has seemed a limp match for the human costs of the campaign. And as the political leader who got the West into this war, Clinton is charged with the responsibility to make it work...
...passing through the area found herself doing triage on a front lawn. The ambulances began shuttling the wounded--the ones who had been able to get out of the building on their own power--to area hospitals. Senior SWAT team agent Donn Kraemer spotted a boy in a window, limp, bleeding, desperate to get out. "He looked at us but was oblivious," Kraemer said. "He was going to come out headfirst." Kraemer and another agent grabbed him and pulled him to safety. The boy, with gunshot wounds in the head and foot, was so much in shock that he could...