Word: voiding
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...that hip-hop is much more: a potent political force that releases the latent energies of black poverty, violence, and frustration. Reeves, a film and music critic who has worked for The Source magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, sees hip-hop as filling the void left by the collapse of the 1960s Black Power movement in defining black identity. The book makes the case, through biographical examination of certain representative artists, that Black Power has not died out but has merely been channeled through the new black musical form; artists such as Sugarhill Gang...
...Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you, always...
...we’re the best rotation in the Ivies this season.”Of course, pitching alone won’t carry the Crimson through the season. A platoon of returning position players, along with some newcomers, will anchor the Harvard squad offensively and defensively, filling the void left by departed stars such as Steffan Wilson—now a pro in Milwaukee Brewers system and a major middle of the lineup presence last year.Captain Matt Vance looks to be a key role player throughout the lineup.“You could put him anywhere...
Imagine a world without CSI, NYPD Blue and Law & Order. That void was pop culture before Brooklynite screenwriter Malvin Wald conceived and co-wrote The Naked City, the noirish black-and-white 1948 film detailing a police investigation into a model's murder. (Famous last lines: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police...
...question now is how that threat will be kept under control. American troop levels in Baghdad and the rest of Iraq will return this year to about the same level as 2006 - the year that saw the worst of the country's sectarian violence. Helping to fill that void, supposedly, will be former members of the Sunni insurgency: thousands have become U.S.-paid counter-insurgents and, in some cases, members of the Iraqi government security forces. Unlike the mostly Shi'ite Iraqi army and police, these Sunnis have credibility in their towns and neighborhoods and have proven effective in fighting...