Word: rapping
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...Poetry is not in decline. it thrives outside academia, in popular song lyrics that millions of people, especially children, can recite by heart. One need only listen to the lyrics of today's hip-hop, rap, jazz and rock-music artists to hear poetry as it has been practiced since ancient times. Contemporary music lyrics can be vulgar, vivid, challenging, eloquent, passionate, inspiring and more-all the things that written poetry used to be. Many academics lament poetry's decline in readership. Who says poetry should be read? The presentation of poetry in written form has declined...
...debate continues about how to deal with the problems posed by older gangs, it's the new wave that is costing the government sleep. Police statistics suggest that about 70 teenage gangs, with more than 1,000 members, are prowling the depressed suburbs of southern Auckland. Inspired by violent rap, hip-hop music and L.A. gang culture, they seem destined either to swell the ranks of the more established ethnic or motorcycle gangs, or, perhaps more alarmingly, to create their own equally ruthless organizations. Dubbed the ABC gangs by police, who shorten their two- or three-word names to acronyms...
...Anderson and Miranda Richardson, to read the letter, act it out, set it to music or coolly dissect it. Many of them turn up on a video wall on which they perform and deform the text more than 30 ways, including as a Bunraku puppet show, an aria, a rap song and a clown routine. On another screen a white cockatoo grabs a paper copy in one claw and eats it. Calle does everything but attach the letter to the back of a chariot and drag it three times around the Colosseum. She may have been dumped...
...just as it took anticommunist Richard Nixon to open the door to China, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to denounce misogyny in rap, so Dingell, Democrat from Dearborn and friend of factories, may be the insider able to drive change. At 80, restored to his wide-ranging dominion over the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, "John Dingell is one of the few people with the capacity to manage complex pieces of legislation where there are high stakes," says former House colleague Philip Sharp...
...Security, the social program enshrined like no other in the theology of the Democratic base, Obama has said he is open to such politically heretical ideas as upping the retirement age and raising payroll taxes to shore up the system. Before black audiences, Obama regularly condemns violent and misogynist rap lyrics and chastises African Americans for disenfranchising themselves by not voting. In March, Obama caused some consternation among Jewish leaders by saying, "No one is suffering more than the Palestinian people." Given the chance to disavow that comment during a debate, Obama merely clarified it, saying the fuller context included...