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...Mudam, as the Musée d'Art Moderne is known for short, started buying works about a decade ago. Even then, Monets and Manets were beyond their budget, and a Picasso was out of the question. So Mudam ended up focusing on what is sometimes called contemporary art, stuff produced after the 1970s or so. You don't have to be an expert to know that the contemporary art scene is a dizzying circus of dead sharks, unmade beds, provocative installations and whizbang video displays - but few crowd-pulling artists with household names...
...though the Tim Hardaways in the rap game are far more prevalent), but a report on a no-name artist—gay or not—isn’t much of an attention-grabber. No, most Americans don’t really care that much about this stuff...
...undoubtedly creates? The answer is a resounding yes; it just takes some perspective. Sure, some say hip-hop demeans women, bashes gays, and perpetuates negative black stereotypes. But it’s not real life, and most people realize this. Besides, we do have a way to make the stuff we don’t like go away. In the same way a frustrated Congress has the power to alter an unjust war by adjusting the President’s funds, we as consumers can make hip-hop whatever we want it to be. If we don?...
...course, I’m not equating the state of hip-hop with the state of Iraq. I realize that our country has bigger fish to fry, and I want my television news to address the stuff that matters. The majority of the people here aren’t too passionate against the music, and those that are can fight the powers that be. In the meantime, if you don’t like it, do what dead prez says: Turn off the radio...
...Flying the slow, obese US-1As seems like junior-varsity stuff compared to the Top Gun U.S. marine aviators at Iwakuni - until I'm put in another flight simulator. Fortunately this time a professional is at the controls, Lt. JG Yoichiro Sagawa, who takes me through the procedure of landing a whale-sized seaplane on 10-ft.-high waves. Seaplanes manage to combine the worst aspects of airsickness and seasickness, and I fear that a simulated flight might make me lose my actual lunch. But Lt. Sagawa has a much surer hand that I do. "Once you get in that...