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...Da Vinci Code
...Da Vinci Code
...between things like “Milkshake” and producing rock bands, the Neptunes are barely contained by hip-hop as a genre. In truth, “In Da Club” is the only joint from this past year still in my head, all mainstream and sewage-level underground productions of 2003 considered. That song, and 50 Cent, are redolent of hip-hop’s gradual ascension more than two decades in the making. They say 50 signaled the return of the hardcore thug emcee, the embodiment of the streets and the real and Tupac Shakur...
...Magdalene married and had a child, which the book postulates, King acknowledges that it is possible. But, as scholars we can’t know, says King, and “it’s really, really unlikely that they were married.” Anyone reading Da Vinci Code would be “ill-advised to take it as history,” King continues, because the book presents a “mixed bag of misinformation and partial truths and in some cases things that are just wrong...
...from a scholarly perspective, she credits the book with “lead[ing] people to ask questions” about the Church like “if that’s not true, what else haven’t we been told?” King explains Da Vinci Code’s phenomenal success by suggesting that people look for meaning by thinking about the body and sexuality in a Christian way. Women, she thinks, find comfort in the idea of a married woman with a baby as an alternate figure to the polarized female models of virgins...