Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed at the Roxbury Community College to celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
...year-old phenomenon can be defined, under the ancient definition, as a social movement that was started by the black and Puerto Rican underclass in the Bronx during the late '70s, or by the '90s version of the term, as a culture that includes a type of spoken-word-over-beats music with a collection of dance videos that are now seeping into the houses of the world's elite. The definitions are part of a continuum; what started as the cries of a disadvantaged group has become a billion dollar industry, one where the investors need the black face...
...because we can't live without them. I'm just saying that we should think about them less and bring our issues into focus. Stop thinking about what they've done to us and start telling everybody about what we can do for ourselves. Hey, if this little movement creates a male version of a chickenhead, I won't be happy. I mean, I want girls to do their own thing and not what the men do. But notice, I didn't say that I'd be too upset either...
Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) added a new method to their repertoire of protest techniques yesterday. During prime time outside the Science Center--at high noon and again at 1 p.m.--they staged a street theater performance to protest the University's sweatshop policy...
...Thursday's accord in Bonn is vague enough on that issue to be sold to both sides. Fudging the contentious issues, of course, allows the political momentum of the peace process to be locked in, ending the war even as significant differences remain. "There's probably a lot more movement on the diplomatic front than is being made public," says Anastasijevic. For now, however, the bombing war continues. And the spin war is about to heat...