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Perhaps this is because they are not afforded the luxury of an overarching vision. They have to satisfy too many masters: the buyers who demand wearable clothes, the magazine editors who respond only to overstyled looks that make good pictures and the celebrities who need outfits to illuminate the red carpet. In the late '90s many young designers--Jeremy Scott springs to mind--tried to make their mark with over-the-top, fashion-forward creations. But today rising stars like Bryan Bradley of Tuleh, Derek Lam and Zac Posen focus on creating clothes that please private clients, celebrities and stores...
...ordinary partner might well give Andre a one-way ticket to All Souls. But despite his gangsta image, Big Boi is remarkably patient and empathetic. In the old married couple that is OutKast, Andre may compromise his airy musical vision, but it is Big Boi who makes sacrifices on the ground. Speakerboxxx was completed in December, but Big Boi refused to release it until Andre finished The Love Below. For the past several years, Big Boi has spent hours each day supervising OutKast's business interests, allowing Andre the freedom to take yoga and saxophone lessons. All the while...
...Love Below rivals Prince's Black Album for both its exploration of Eros (a song called Spread) and its occasional self-indulgence (a Coltrane-inspired cover of My Favorite Things). It's the most adventurous album so far this year, but it is work, and if Andre compromised his vision, it's hard to imagine how. Speakerboxxx proves that Big Boi is the smoothest, funniest rapper in the game, but it's a more traditional, beat-reliant rap album, and there are a few moments when Big Boi's baritone could use one of Andre's melodic gusts...
...vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state." GRAY DAVIS, California Governor, at a press conference...
...innocence.” He reads as though scolding a spineless Democratic Party when lamenting that “the best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Eventually, the mystical poem goes farther than we would. When Yeats’ millennial vision warns that “mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” one suspects that the poem’s aptitude for our age has ended. Yet speeches and articles have been using even this line in earnest; one post-9/11 commencement speaker, citing it, noted...