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...album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004’s “i”) that alternately charm and annoy the critics. Still, this album has a lot to unpack. Director Chen Shi-Zheng, Merritt’s theatrical collaborator, builds his drama on age-old stories that, like a puzzle, simultaneously attract and deflect the audience. Unsurprisingly, the plays are all built on somewhat macabre premises: “The Orphan of Zhao” dramatizes the historic massacre...
Dust off those Air Forces. Unpack the SL-1200s.Before long, freestyle neophytes curious about hip-hop history will be able to take their “ass to the museum”—in the characteristically bombastic words of “Cop Killer” rapper Ice-T—to have some knowledge dropped on their inquiring domes. Grandmaster Flash, the Smithsonian needs you. The Smithsonian’s recent request for rap artifacts to be featured in their upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life...
Michael Chertoff's office is full of boxes. He's been the nation's Homeland Security chief for 30 days and still he hasn't paused to unpack. There are boxes in the corner, under his desk, stacked in front of the bay window. "They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down," Chertoff says. Not that sitting is a priority. Chertoff speed-walks to meetings where he peppers subordinates with pointed questions and blazes through topics he wants to cover. He has a bad habit, aides joke, of running ahead of schedule. "It takes all the energy...
THERE ARE STACKS OF BOXES ALL OVER YOUR OFFICE. YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE JOB FOR A MONTH NOW, AND YOU HAVEN'T UNPACKED? It's all the stuff from my chambers. A lot of knickknacks accumulated over many years of public service. At some point I will move them somewhere or unpack them. They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down...
...you’re a snarky gossip columnist for the magazine, your saliva is connected by three degrees of separation to an outgoing Superboard member who has yet to unpack many of her belongings from last September’s move...