Word: meshes
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...neighborhood of Gangabu, another hotbed of protests, the police have just fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protestors, and many have scattered. Ram Bahadur, a stone cutter, is watching the protestors flee from behind the safety of the wire-mesh screen in his backyard. He is surrounded by large pieces of marble, which he cuts for people building their houses - white marble, good for making stairs, and imitation green mable for the kitchens. Since the movement began, though, no one has bought any marble. "I want all this to end, I'll tell you that," he mumbles...
...rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while still drawing lyrical nourishment from idols like Rakim. Whether Vanilla Ice or Black Eyed Peas, pop outsiders who appropriate rap forms without a nod to their numerous predecessors are ostracized. Though these sequential links are vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional exhibition format is likely to do, is antithetical to the genre’s amorphous structure. Underground pioneers the Wu-Tang Clan hint at this dilemma when they...
...fact that I get to teach courses that mesh with my research interests makes life very pleasant,” says Miron, whose current interests include libertarian economics, crime, recycling, global warming, and terrorism. “You don’t have this tension of ‘should I focus on research or teaching’—the two are almost one and the same...
...levees are being reconsidered, the schools reimagined, the whole region rethought, with ideas for riverfront parks, light-rail systems and everything short of whirlycopters filling the sky. Some of it may even happen. Not all the plans mesh, and most of them require dollars that may not all materialize, but in a city that has suffered like this one, the power of this wholesale reinventing is a sign of life in itself...
...BEST OF YOUTH MARCO TULLIO GIORDANA The lives oftwo brothers--one a doctor, one a soldier--mesh and collide over 40 years in this fascinating and often moving six-hour drama. Six hours? Yep. Too long for a sit in a movie house, but just right for an evening or two's home adventure. This is old-fashioned filmmaking--beautiful people facing horrible problems--at its most seductive. At times it strains to represent every aspect of late 20th century Italy in one family (a Red Brigades radical is told to kill a prominent attorney, who is--her brother...