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Also, reports of the Benz/backpack dichotomy between mainstream and underground rap that Kanye West claims to have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip’s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
Farley highlights an upcoming film, “Proof,” which is a story about the life of a mathematician, starring Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow. Although Farley is not directly working with the film, he notes that mainstream movies such as this are of interest to him and his consulting company...
...arguing that it is one of the cleanest ways to produce power. Microgeneration fans disagree. Jeremy Leggett, ceo of Solarcentury, Britain's leading solar photovoltaics company, thinks nuclear power is risky and that a combination of dwindling oil reserves and global warming will eventually propel microgeneration technologies into the mainstream...
...deal with themes that have always interested me and are vaguely esoteric in nature. But I'm going to try to make them dramatic. I'm going to try to make them emotional. How they're gonna turn out, I don't know. I know they won't be mainstream movies. Fortunately, I have built my facility here to work in. I've set aside a chunk of money to do my movies--that I figure will last me for 10 years, when I'll be seventysomething and I should probably quit. I'm sure they'll be just...
...tolerated. Nonetheless, these valid concerns should be differentiated from an expansive political correctness that is, in reality, an attempt to protect people’s feelings. While threats or physical action against a co-worker are illegal and prosecutable, an ill-placed joke or an out-of-the-mainstream opinion is not. Harvard, at least on paper, recognizes this fact. The Handbook for Students states that “speech not specifically directed against individuals in a harassing way may be protected by traditional safeguards of free speech, even though the comments may cause considerable discomfort or concern to others...