Word: blue
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...whiny pronouncements, as in: "There is something grievously wrong with a culture that values Wall Street sharks above social workers, armament manufacturers above artists, or, for that matter, corporate lawyers above homemakers." And as if to justify her hostility toward yuppies, she insists on painting an idyllic picture of blue-collar Americans as "more intellectually engaged," more generous of spirit and, of course, better in bed. Overall, her observations suffer from a simplistic yearning for a nonexistent era when the poor were not blamed for their poverty, when people did not cram their appointment books and when college graduates pursued...
...mostly suggestive, this urban-black music is often politically or sexually explicit. N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude) won an admonishing letter from the FBI for their song FTha Police, in which the singer warns the ghetto's occupying force: "Ice Cube will swarm/ On any m f in a blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their songs are also critical of blacks who reject their roots, of the brothers...
...signal the end of the world; instead, they were heralding a new one. "A creator is not in advance of his generation," said Gertrude Stein, "but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation." Like them or not, today's blue comics and shock rockers know what is happening to this generation and are speaking to it. That is why they are popular...
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY. This company's 35th anniversary New York season celebrates the vitality of America's best modern ensemble. In the repertory are two new works, including the full-length Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun. And Taylor's dancers really can fly. Through...
Well, shucks. It's been a long time since we all bought our jeans blue and faded them on the hoof. Now mainstream fiction runs to my-divorce novels and the acid-washed prose of minimalism. Dreary stuff, which is why the old-time, down-home Robbins would be welcome, a leftover '60s bystander reflects. But Skinny Legs and All falls awkwardly between storytelling and pamphleteering, and the old, bouncy irreverence sours into preachiness and windy bosh...