Word: underground
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...oversized hair, oversized glasses, over-used eyeliner and the rainbow of skinny jeans and footless tights that represent the whole of youth culture today - boys and girls alike. Two young ladies in front of us expressed their frustration at missing Lethal Bizzle, a prime exponent of London's underground grime scene, whose heavy bass we could hear thumping away over the wall as punters were trying to get as many pre-festival kicks in as possible by stocking up on energy drinks and Pro Plus caffeine tablets...
...coworkers can calculate revenue from dividends on a stock over the past 18 years in six minutes, but would be incapable of getting from Point A to Point B if the two weren’t connected by miles of underground track. In New York, though, this isn’t an indication of incompetence. Instead, it carries the cachet of never having lived outside the sophisticated metropolis...
...Underground, 1997 The 1995 Kobe earthquake and the sarin-gas attacks on Tokyo's subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult turned Murakami's thoughts back to Japan after almost seven years away. This non-fiction book was based on scores of interviews with former cult members and gas-attack survivors...
...studied disconnection from the world that has made Murakami's early work so beloved of the fashionable literati - and the lonely young - has receded. In fact, responsibility is his animating principle these days. "I have a gift to write about these things," Murakami says of 1997's Underground, his oral history of the Tokyo subway gas attacks and a book he sees as a career turning point. "At the same time, I have a responsibility." Though he says he doesn't want to talk about Japanese politics, he returns to the subject again and again throughout a 212-hour conversation...
...rules. Students for a Democratic Society was once a successful New Left organization in the 1960s until it turned radical. During a 1968 strike at Columbia University, bands of SDSers took the Dean of Students hostage, and another faction later developed into the Weathermen, a militant underground group best remembered for their penchant for bombs...