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...everyone will relate to updating Sammy Davis Jr.'s schmaltzy Candy Man, but Cibo Matto puckishly turns it into an eerie, atmospheric dirge. Like the Fugees, Cibo Matto provides a twist on rap, a genre in which groups seem to have the shelf life of yogurt. No need to try to identify the taste--from Tokyo or Trenton or Port-au-Prince. As Hatori sings on Cibo Matto's Birthday Cake: "Shut...
...killing was a lethal twist in the often eccentric and sometimes troubled life of Du Pont, who had transformed his 800-acre estate, Foxcatcher Farms, into a state-of-the-art sports center for amateur wrestlers, swimmers and pentathletes. "Eagle" du Pont (so called because few people could pronounce Eleuthere) is well known in U.S. wrestling circles as one of the sport's most generous backers-he has donated more than $3 million to the U.S. Olympic wrestling team. But he is also known as a controversial figure whose lavish treatment of athletes sometimes mocked the values of amateur sports...
...ephemera and coming and going, taken all the way. Upstairs in Annenberg Hall, there is text and patterned color in the stained glass windows. Iconography and cultural content chosen with confidence by a single generation and there forever. Downstairs, Venturi's LED signs continue the theme, but with a twist. Text, colors, cultural content and iconography in constant tradition; millenial energy and uncertainty. The movement of the LEDs, surprisingly, is what keeps the place dynamic; turn them off and the space deadens. But what they need is participation and inventiveness and a sense of color and design...
...nothing to say about raising the minimum wage, banning the use of "replacement workers" as strike breakers, or defending occupational safety and health standards against the Republican onslaught. In fact, his economic program is little more than the old millionaire-friendly supply-side economics, garnished with a twist of nationalism. Business, says Buchanan, should be free to do whatever it wants, except perhaps flee across the border in search of even cheaper labor...
Roberson was acquitted last month of all 14 charges, but not before 28 townspeople had been jailed for similar crimes. These cases recall nothing so much as medieval witch-hunts, but with a progressive twist: men too may now be burned at the stake...