Word: underground
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...lives of all these performers. Each one offers a unique reason to suck up saccharine melody, and each reason is more nuanced than “it’s fun to dance to.”ROAD TO JOYFor some, pop is a gateway drug to the musical underground. It’s practical, even if you’re past the first musical high.“I think all the music that I spend my time listening to has substance, pretty much,” says Samuel M. Zornow ’08. “Certain...
...Bosnian war, was retired in 1996 and lived quite openly in Belgrade despite an international warrant for his arrest. He was protected by Slobodan Milosevic, the long-time Serbian president who was himself indicted for war crimes in Bosnia and Kosovo. After Milosevic's downfall in 2000, Mladic went underground, although he was reportedly seen at several remote locations in Serbia. Since 2000. Serbian authorities insisted that they had no idea about Mladic's whereabouts, even though they continued to send his pension checks to his family, who still lives in Belgrade. So it was quite an embarrassment last week...
...Pistols covers (“everyone hated us,” he recalls). The more tempered, thoughtful songs of the Galaxie 500 project emerged after college, in the broader Boston scene. “We gravitated toward a sound that was based on more American bands…Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers…there was a punk rock ethic to it, but it was no longer loud and fast. Which we were just bad at.” The band grew in the bar by North Station where anyone could play; in the underground network that...
...around 1 AM, the Zeta Alpha party is in full-swing. Women who seem to be dressed for the unofficial Dyke Ball, which was rumored to take place underground this year, stroll through the door. They wear bathrobes and bumper stickers, adding even more character to a party composed of biker babes and women in drag. The odd pair of breasts or pair of women kissing can be spotted at the party, but while some male guests ogle, everyone else is nonplussed. Indeed, more provocative actions were perhaps occurring concurrently in the Winthrop dining hall that night...
...climate of fear has only worsened since then. In 2004 it even got a slogan--Stop Snitching--with the appearance of an underground DVD with that title. The video, which gained attention around the country in part because of a cameo by homegrown NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony, is both a celebration of thug life and an orgy of threats and denunciations against crime witnesses who cooperate with police. Since the DVD appeared, Stop Snitching T shirts, visors and other apparel have become a fashion phenom in inner-city America. The apparel has been banned from Massachusetts courthouses as of January...