Word: sauls
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...placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child’s education: “King Saul fell on his sword…and Joseph’s brother sold him down the river for a song,” and finishes at what was presumably a central moment in a young songwriter’s growth, Kurt Cobain’s suicide...
With his latest work, “The Life of David,” Pinsky chronicles the entire life of the Old Testament’s David—the “Light of Israel” who bested Goliath, conquered his mentor Saul to become king, battled his son Absalom for power, and envisioned the city of Jerusalem. The author’s carefully-constructed prose takes the remoteness of the biblical tale and turns it into accessible drama; even when using prose, Pinsky operates with the grace of a poet...
Biographies based on religious scripture, no matter how eloquent, aren’t exactly beach reading, and “David” is no exception. Still, Pinsky adds enough modern-day points of reference to keep the story accessible. When David bargains with Saul about marrying the latter’s daughter, it’s “like something from the ‘Godfather’ movies or ‘The Sopranos.’” When one of David’s opponents finds a spear driven through his stomach, he?...
...that an entire genre of music has not grown and evolved just as its listeners have is simply uneducated. There is more to hip-hop than the mainstream media choose to embrace. There is a whole world of music, from rapper Talib Kweli to hip-hop poet and singer Saul Williams, that isn't a painful "audio beat down." I have a hard time with labels like black music and white music. Why can't people just listen to music, period--rock, rap or whatever they want...
...make an advertising message culturally relevant, says Saul Gitlin, executive vice president at Kang & Lee Advertising, you have to do more than toss a desi face into a commercial. Values such as education, hierarchy and status are unshakable for desi families, even if modified to reflect American lifestyles. "There's a core belief in higher education and studying and saving," says Phil Salis, vice president of consumer marketing at MetLife, which has created desi-specific television advertising to run on satellite channels such as ZEE TV, B4U, Sony TV and TV Asia. He's not kidding: 64% of Indians...