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...specifically college students. We refuse to believe that they cannot maturely handle the music. Students have a right to their own taste, even if it is not the symphony. The students and the HCC have called for Outkast, and though the administration’s concern for our virgin ears is touching, it is clearly misplaced...
Madonna--she of the blond ambition--is the American pop paradigm. She debuted with prefab, coquettish tunes such as Borderline and Like a Virgin, then experimented with her own songwriting, as well as Latin and dance-club influences, while never forgetting to deliver at least a smidge of sex (usually more) in her songs and videos. Of the new generation, Britney Spears is the most precocious student. On her most recent album, Britney, Spears messes around with hip-hop rhythm--the white girl's stock assertion of musical growth--and sings I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman...
...major government-driven effort, the capital's once gutted urban center has been turned into a new downtown that aspires to reclaim for Beirut its old title, "Paris of the Middle East." The streets are lined with new and restored office buildings, apartments, shops and cafes. There's a Virgin Megastore (selling DVDs like Legally Blonde alongside videotapes of Osama bin Laden speeches) and a Beirut branch of Paul, a famed Parisian boulangerie. Summer festivals in the mountains east of the city have featured attractions such as Sting and Elton John...
...Gospels don't tell us much about the Virgin Mary's life, but in Giotto's time fanciful tales from the Apocryphal Gospels - stories about Jesus and his followers that weren't admitted to the scriptures sanctioned by the Church - filled in the gaps and provided the scripts for mystery plays. Giotto's figures, like medieval actors, seem to have crowded onto a small stage to tell their story, but they behave as real people do, carrying baskets, bathing babies, exchanging significant glances...
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