Word: whitest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...packed his bottle-cap glasses and scruff aesthetic off to Berlin, where he turn-tabled, released a successful solo album, reworked old favorites into catchy dance tunes for Studio !K7’s DJ Kicks series, and recorded ’80s-influenced electro-pop with side project Whitest Boy Alive. Meanwhile, the more introverted Bøe played gigs with his own second band, Kommode, and spent time at home in Bergen with his wife. Their musical reunion this year—in Mexico, of all places—promised to synthesize their respective sensibilities into a more satisfying...
...undercut by a dearth of real humor. The film lacks its own voice, and its characters are in an incessant struggle to find a wit that is uniquely theirs. Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore—two of the actors from IFC’s “The Whitest Kids U’Know”—direct, produce, and star in the film, which is little more than a failed narcissistic foray into the unforgiving world of the feature-length movie. The plot is typical bromance fodder. After waking up from four years in a coma...
...This much seems obvious in light of recent bids at de-starching the whitest collars for election: be he a millionaire actor or a dyed-in-the-cashmere Connecticut Yankee, your candidate can also be Washington’s “Honest Man”—firm and virtuous enough, at least, to win the White House...
...racial appeal; he knows he can't win as the Black Candidate. I remember watching Obama in a school auditorium in Berlin, N.H., this winter, long before Rev. Wright became a household name. One aging hippie-after saying he hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said. "All the self-flagellation, it's not useful. African-Americans get all riled...
...Which brings us to March 4. Vermont has the nation's second-whitest and second-oldest electorate, the kind of demographics that tend to favor Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries. The popular former governor Madeleine Kunin is leading the Clinton campaign in Vermont, and Chelsea Clinton came to campaign on Friday. But Barack Obama is dominating the polls. "This is a state with a strong feminist tradition, but Obama's eating Hillary's lunch," says University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson. Obama created quite a stir when he visited the campus last year. "I've been here...