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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...icing—finely groomed and processed gems that remind listeners that, despite its faults, radio hip-hop has consistently pushed sonic boundaries. “Platinum BlaQue Party” employs shaker, hi-hat and triangle samples straight from a Missy Elliott chart-topper, along with a creamy-wet, futuristic synth. The lyrics imitate radio-hop’s vapid babble but exaggerate it even further, laying bare its superficiality. “I got so much access to excess,” they croon, “words cannot describe my success.” Yet Ladd...

Author: By Michael S. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...were to be offered surgical masks, but there has been such a run on them that too few were available. Instead, bandannas were distributed, which fans were told to wear around their mouths. "When you wear them all day, the [bandannas] get all wet with saliva and sweat, becoming useless," said Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association. Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: since the disease hit, city restaurants have seen a 15% drop in dinner business, and travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rugby 1, Supervirus 0 | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...there in the dark." And if you were to say that having Oscar as usual is a bit like dancing in the ballroom of the Titanic, Hollywood would reply, "You give us a $2.2 billion worldwide gross and 11 Oscars, and we'll fox-trot till the cold wet dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Goes to War — Not! | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...Freudian nightmare--and a completely disgusting scene involving a toilet. "People say the scariest part of a movie is when you don't see something. Bulls___!" Kasdan says, chewing on a Twizzler while reviewing the sound of a door being opened by an alien, for which he requests additional "wet squeegee" noises. "I want to see something when I go to the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Horror Sounds | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

Near the street, speakers rally to attention beside a bookselling table offering war- and protest-relevant works. Down in the plaza, some protesters are lying on the spring-wet brick, resting before the next stage of the march, which will take them back to Copley Square...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Marchers Chant, Dance And Hobble Their Way Across The Bridge To Protest in Boston | 3/21/2003 | See Source »

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