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...Victory Tower in the Tiergarten. Campaign officials have been sensitive about the characterization of that event, insisting that it is a substantive foreign policy address, though given German enthusiasm for Obama, the atmosphere is expected to look more like a political rally. They said Obama is not likely to mention his opponent, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, but they would not say whether he will criticize the policies of George W. Bush...
...grazing hungrily in college towns, those intrinsically hip places where collective shoe preference may run the narrow gamut from Birkenstocks to Doc Martens but ears are all wide open. The academic triangle of Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, boasts popular alternative bands like Superchunk, not to mention a label, Mammoth Records. Jay Faires, founder of Mammoth, set up shop in the area quite simply because ''there are a lot of 18- to 22-year-olds who don't have much to do, who smoke a lot of pot and who eventually pick up a guitar.'' Record executives...
...mainstream culture has become cautious, sanitized, scared of its own shadow. Network TV, targeted by antiviolence crusaders and nervous about offending advertisers, has purged itself of what little edge and controversy it once had. Hollywood movies, seeking blockbuster audiences, are shying away from the restrictive R rating (not to mention the dreaded NC-17) and stressing feel-good family entertainment. Everyone is watching his or her words; language has grown cumbersome, self-conscious and freighted with symbolic baggage. In such an uptight climate, cultural renegades are doing what they have always done: trying to shock, offend, liberate. Stern's gross...
...BOTTOM LINE: An Australian writer re-creates his country's pioneer past with originality, not to mention Aboriginality...
...English accents are familiar), it is because + David Malouf writes about his historical compatriots as if they had never left the British Isles. Their bodies may be in the boundless Down Under, but their heads are still full of neat patches of sod, heather and greensward. Not to mention the God of their fathers, who blesses the seeding of new continents. The dangers of cultural crossings are unavoidable, as Malouf's title suggests. Fairley, a white man with Aboriginal ways, represents a primitive immigrant's worst confusion: the man in the right skin but the wrong tribe. Like the Wild...