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Leland has a weakness for phrasemaking and surplus rhetoric but a real gift for connecting centuries-old developments in American life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clich?...
...slipping across the Mediterranean into Italy. " Libya can tighten its borders," says a European ambassador in Tripoli. "But the Libyans think this is our problem." Friendship still has its limits. - By Vivienne Walt Close Call POLAND Prime Minister Marek Belka's government narrowly survived a parliamentary vote of confidence just hours after Belka announced the country would begin reducing its 2,500-strong troop contingent in Iraq early next year. "We will not remain in Iraq an hour longer than is sensible [or] necessary to achieve our mission's goal," he said. More than 70% of Poles oppose their country...
Cunningham's new novel promises to do for the poet Walt Whitman what The Hours did for Woolf. Specimen Days is due out in June, and if anything, Cunningham has only got more audacious and more, well, cunning in the past six years. Like The Hours, Specimen Days is a fugue in three parts: it consists of three stories, each set in a different historical period--the Industrial Revolution, the 1920s and the far future. And each is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery and science fiction. You read that right. The third section will...
...Internet. Exhibit B: Even before the launch of TiVoToGo, the online cognoscenti have latched on to BitTorrent software for swapping TV shows. Privately, some movie bosses admit the industry is on the wrong track. "Studios can only bitch so much before they provide a viable, competitive alternative," says one Walt Disney executive...
...your Uncle Walt's cartoons, the creaky two-dimensional kind with hand-made drawings and singing dwarfs and teapots. Even the most familiar looking of our new trio--Shark Tale, from the people responsible for the Shrek megahits--is in the computer-generated mode. Another DreamWorks cartoon that eerily resembles the work of its competitor Pixar (Antz to match A Bug's Life, Shrek to counter Monsters Inc.), this one goes underwater, as Pixar's Finding Nemo did, but with a more urban-contemporary tilt and much less craft and heart...