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...dense and aggressive and carried militant political messages. Public Enemy made rap serious, and sold millions of records in the process. But it has taken the band three years to release a new album. Rap has changed in that time, and members of the band have reached their early 30s -- advanced middle age by hip-hop standards. The result is that while Public Enemy is still angry, it has a new target to attack: the gangsta rappers who have come after it -- and who have also sold millions of records...
...doctor in his late 30s, near the top in his field, despairs of the future. "I was a believer until the late 1980s. Now I am agnostic," he says. His home in the suburbs of Havana is comfortable by comparison with those of most Cubans: the prerevolutionary furniture is carefully preserved, and a 50-year- old refrigerator is stocked with black-market meat bought with dollars sent by relatives in Miami. Although his oven no longer works, he is an expert, like all Cubans, at resolviendo (resolving the problem): he bakes cakes in a pressure cooker...
...this backstage story there are no villains, unless it is the lumbering behemoth that Hollywood filmmaking has become. In the '30s a director like Michael Curtiz made six or seven pictures a year. Even today, TV can crank out a news-based movie (on Tonya Harding or the Waco siege) within a couple of months of the event. But in theatrical features, where everyone is conscious of art, ego and the roll of megamillion-dollar dice, the average film takes a couple of years from first draft to opening...
...sources. One route passes through the highbrow beat poetry of the 1940s and '50s that, because of its small audience, perfected the art of producing the small-run, beautifully crafted publications called chapbooks. The other follows the science-fiction press back to its pulp roots in the late '30s when fans of this literary genre circulated rough, mimeographed copies of their own voluminous stories, commentary and manifestos...
...agents, all in their 30s, were taking part in Operation Snowcap, a seven-year-old U.S. effort to dismantle cocaine networks. TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says the program -- which tries to wipe out air landing strips in the area that produces 60 percent of the world's coca leaves -- is under fire within the agency for showboating and has faced increasing budget cuts under the Clinton Administration: some top D.E.A hands "say a lot of agents have been having a good time playing war. But they think the money ought to be spent closer to home...