Word: underground
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...SEOUL Livingsa, located in the Hoehyeon Underground Mall in the financial district, is a mecca for vinyl hunters. The tiny shop is so tightly packed with its 150,000 records that customers have to shuffle sideways around the store. The catalog is eclectic and includes Korean folk collections from the 1950s, live Nat King Cole recordings, Eddie Murphy stand-up albums as well as a jumble of jazz, classical...
...signature tone is one of rock-anthem optimism, and Multitude is definitely animated by a warmhearted belief in human goodness. But it is, ultimately, a work of Utopian thinking, occasionally shading into utter fantasy. Multitude treats the global populace as if we were all one big, happy, left-wing underground, undivided by cultural differences, eagerly awaiting our chance to sock it to global capitalism. The authors' examples of multitude-style international activism--the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle in 1999 or the G-8 protests in Genoa in 2001--have a wan, quixotic air to them. "Eventually, perhaps...
...their cars that identify them as members of Congress and replace them with regular plates. And when they leave the congressional grounds they should take off the pins they wear on their coat lapels identifying them as congressmen. Now the Sergeant-at-Arms advised members to take the underground tunnels when they walk from their offices to the Capitol for votes instead of venturing outside, where they might be targets for terrorists...
Though the band received minimal radio play while doing gigs in Boston and New York, the trio developed a dedicated underground following among teenagers thanks to the emergence of filesharing programs like Napster...
...before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun the sunlit world have led Clarke into many of Tasmania's darkest corners, often by very uncomfortable routes. So for a caver who thinks nothing of slithering on his belly along an underground tunnel just wide enough to fit his body, with only his head above water - "we call it roof sniffing," he says - the entrance he's plunging into is like a portico...