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While figurative lyrical flourishes were once treated as mere embellishments on relatively representational rhymes with concrete subjects, today’s avant-garde rappers approach abstraction for its own sake. When Mr. Lif and Insight, two Boston rappers still on the fringe of broad recognition, collaborated on the track “Iron Helix” on Lif’s “I, Phantom” concept album, they didn’t trade spars about each other’s virility or compare bling quotients...
...walks the concourse of Angels Stadium, picking up cigarette butts and greeting fans. In January Moreno upset many Orange County supporters of the former Anaheim Angels by tacking Los Angeles onto the team name, relegating Anaheim, a city of 343,000, 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a mere appendage. He also granted the Angels the dubious distinction of being the only major pro-sports franchise identified by two cities. Yet tonight awestruck fans greet him like a savior. A man in a WE ARE NOT LA Angels T shirt praises him. "It means so much to have...
While figurative lyrical flourishes were once treated as mere embellishments on relatively representational rhymes with concrete subjects, today’s avant-garde rappers approach abstraction for its own sake. When Mr. Lif and Insight, two Boston rappers still on the fringe of broad recognition, collaborated on the track “Iron Helix” on Lif’s “I, Phantom” concept album, they didn’t trade spars about each other’s virility or compare bling quotients...
Ratzinger, to his credit, foresaw with great prescience the grave challenge that the Church would face in a world where moral standards were constantly under attack and true faith was belittled as simplemindedness or mere superstition. His message of hope here was not consoling in the short term; indeed, it might seem harrowing, but is nonetheless realistic and positive. In an interview entitled God and the World he remarked that, especially in Europe, the Church will likely become small, and will to a great extent have to start over again. This should not cause panic, however, because the population...
...obesity debate, however, it never takes long for rhetoric to outpace the science. And sure enough, a group called the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) seized on the CDC study last week to launch an ad campaign dismissing America's obesity "epidemic," "problem," "threat" and "issue" as mere "hype...