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...just that they’re artists with a powerful legacy of cultural and artistic relevance—as hip-hop’s uber-group (along with perhaps the Roots, for which Scott Storch played keyboard), they are the spring from which countless fountains of Five-Percenter slang-throwing rappers and chess-playing b-boys flow, not to mention the beginning of my own interest in hip-hop.I spent my first semester at Harvard slightly unmoored, thanks to ill-matched roommates and general freshman-year over-stimulation. So, I opted to channel my energies into nonstop Moral Reasoning...
Still, at the end of it, Obama showed what all the campaign's stage-managing has failed to - marveling, "Wow, she really housed that sucker." The offhand outburst of slang made him seem like anything but an intellectual, or a presidential candidate. Whether he can capably channel more of that guy-next-door-persona tonight could well determine his fate in Pennsylvania, and possibly in the fall...
...service is internet slang for what happens when, for better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first...
...planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about. She has his wit, his lyrical vision, and his ability to slice keenly with language, to be precise and poignant. But her sentences haunt and linger longer than her American counterpart, particularly when she fearlessly confronts Day’s disillusion: “Alfred supposed bits...
...mails, which seemed to be sent from the address support@harvard.edu, asked students to reply with their passwords “to complete your harvard account.” This practice—known in Internet slang as phishing—is “so common as to be routine,” said Jonathan L. Zittrain, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School who specializes in Internet...