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...have snapped Israelis back into the mixture of nationalism and fear at the root of Zionism. What used to be a minority view - the conviction that Israel's enemies mean to wipe it off the map and that to make peace is to invite extinction - is now mainstream thinking. It can be measured in the high level of response to call-ups for army reserve duty by ordinary Israelis, and it's erased almost entirely any lingering support for the concessions offered to the Palestinians in the 1993 Oslo peace accord. As a result...
Missy and Timbaland are one of hip-hop’s great duos, a point driven home by the confident pose the two strike together inside their new album. Each record they craft signals another paradigm shift in mainstream hip-hop. But for once, the ante’s been upped on them—the Neptunes now own this hip-hop game, and their effect via the breathtaking “Grindin” on Under Construction is clear...
...Heartbreak Hotel," and became the biggest music idol since Sinatra, and loads weirder. Then, too soon, he was devoured by Hollywood's make-over machinery, steered into a rut that would lead to nearly three dozen low-mediocre films. Parker's determination to slip Elvis into the old showbiz mainstream effectively neutered the emperor of sexual and musical threat...
...early rock didn't allow for much variety: 12-bar blues, 16-bar pop song. Phase 3 began in late 1957, when every songwriter was handing him drab variants on Blackwell's "Don't Be Cruel" By the end of the 60s, Phase 4, Elvis was redoing mainstream songs, ones everyone had heard a hundred times before. A lot of his later hits - "Crying in the Chapel," "The Wonder of You," "My Way" -had already been hits. This made him the world's priciest lounge act. Even before Elvis played Vegas, he was Vegas...
...Sadly, the pulverizing novelty of sexual danger was quickly domesticated, as Elvis jumped into mainstream show business. Like Brando, Elvis helped America realize it was dying to be hip. But having educated his audience to get hipper, he seemed to get squarer simply by standing still. He had segued from being Elvis to doing Elvis: playing him on TV and in movies. He'd become his own parody, stunt double, postage stamp - the first Elvis impersonator. In the new era of the singer-songwriter, the "mere" singer was an anachronism, dependent on others to write "Elvis-style" material. The Beatles...