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...DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist and co-founder of seminal punk band The Ramones, known for their angsty punk anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop; after a five-year battle with prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Ramone, born John Cummings, helped craft The Ramones' thrashing, guitar-driven songs and unadorned pop melodies that became a model for future groups from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana. Despite his rebellious image, Ramone was a teetotaler and staunch Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association...
...they do. Though the Masai make claims to vast tracts of southern and central Kenya, the most active dispute has arisen on the western slopes of Mount Kenya, 200 km north of Nairobi. In just over a month, the Masai have ripped up dozens of miles of fencing and driven tens of thousands of cattle onto ranchers' fields. Riot police have chased invaders off the land, and used tear gas and bullets to break up demonstrations. The 38 mainly white landowners, most of whom are Kenyan citizens, have their own claim to the land: 999-year leases issued before independence...
...still be trying to do the track at the same time; mostly we just played through. Maybe he thought that if he acted in that way, then the group could get on with the music. Joe Strummer's lyrics were politically impassioned. Why are so few artists driven in the same way today? When you mention politics now it's like a bad word almost. It's synonymous with corruption and unfairness. At the time it came across as political but we were just talking about what affected our lives. We were never allied in any way to any political...
Here’s where film studies is exemplary. For if there has been an area where American economic (and stylistic) dominance has driven complicated cultural and institutional resistance, it has been in film. Resistance to Hollywood has been national and personal; it’s been aesthetically radical and desperately imitative; but Hollywood has been the elephant in the room since the 1920s...
Gela and Pam show up at my hotel in a chauffeur-driven black Ford Excursion. They have matching Juicy sweat-suit dresses, matching Hermes handbags, matching Treo phones, nearly identical Manolo Blahnik shoes that make matching clicks as they walk, identical square engagement rings the size of Hungry Man dinners and the same Cosabella underwear, for which I have to take their word because I keep getting distracted by something else when they get in and out of the Excursion in their tiny outfits. Gela, the brunet, is completely in orange, and Pam, the blond, in white...