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...College Dropout shows that Kanye is on an altogether different tip. His sped-up divas may have been nabbed from soul music, but they’re really kindred spirits with early rave anthems, whose chipmunk voices were pilfered and used for the same naively uplifting ends. (Charmingly ironic is the vocoder-led house number that bursts out of “The New Workout Plan”—work that drum machine, Kanye.) In contrast to the “faded photograph” echo in much of hip-hop’s sampled melodies, Kanye...
...want my organdy snood, and in addition to that I want my chiffon Mother Hubbard lined with Hudson Bay rat! Dress me up from top to bottom, dress me up from tip to toe, Dress me up in silk and spinach for today...
...Australia's many untamed expanses, Arnhem Land, the vast spread of savannah, swamps and crocodile-infested rivers on the northeastern tip of the Northern Territory, remains one of the wildest. A handful of settlements dot its 95,000-sq.-km area, and the unsealed 750-km road that crosses it is passable only in the dry season. When anthropologist Donald Thomson, whose writings on this enigmatic region will be republished this month in Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land (Miegunyah Press; 264 pages), arrived there just 70 years ago, it was also feared by many whites, who had heard stories...
...Crimson began the night with a turnover off the tip, an ominous beginning to a sloppy game. Brown’s quick guards, Tanara Golston and Sarah Hayes, blanketed Harvard, forcing 17 turnovers...
Shopping for vintage used to mean digging through dusty bins under fluorescent lights at the Salvation Army store or having a friend tip you off to that tiny, off-the-beaten-path consignment shop. But today, threads from the past are a ubiquitous and accessible part of fashion, and retailers across the country--including department stores like Bloomingdale's and Henri Bendel in New York City--sell vintage alongside contemporary collections. "It's as if it was another label," says Tiffany Dubin, the author of Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes, who introduced couture auctions to Sotheby...