Word: hipping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Linkin Park's sound is the sort of sonic soup their audience hungers for: a handful of metal, a sprinkle of hip-hop and just a pinch of ambient. But the name of the game is consistency, and Bennington and Shinoda deftly pull together the squall of tracks like "Crawling" and "One Step Closer." Indeed, picking a first single must have been near-impossible, as there are no real duds on Hybrid Theory-each track offers something to hum or shout along with. At the same time, it's hard to ignore Linkin Park's packaged feel, from their myriad...
...great," parent Leon W. Tucker said. "It shows what the students are doing collectively, as well as the mindset of studies, hip-hop, social issues, academics and school spirit...
Their unavoidable hit is a mix of calypso-inflected insults ("Get back, you flea-infested mongrel!") to a hip-hop-cum-pop beat. But it's the hook that has become an ironic anthem. The singer shouts, "Who let the dogs out?" The reply is a male chorus of "Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof...
...moves and spirit of her great collaborator, Bob Fosse. In her 70s, Gwen created the musical Fosse, willing his work into immortality through new dancers, not so much teaching as illuminating them, lighting each like a candle, startling and inspiring with a sudden and impossible whirl, a back-arched, hip-winked, sly-smiled thrust of her hands in which each finger had a job and a mind of its own, not so much defying time and gravity as making them seem irrelevant, burnishing the Fosse moves into the classic permanence of a Van Gogh swirl or a Beethoven crescendo...
...against the snobs. "I actually think Harvard is too liberal for the snobby girls to rule. Go to Penn and you'll see what it could have been like," said one girl. Maybe she's right-take a look at this e-mail from an officer of a certain "hip" organization to the rest of the staff. The writer clearly believes that her peons are nowhere near as snooty as they need to be. (It was forwarded to me by a disgruntled staff member with the attached note, "If this is what pretentiousness is coming to, let me take...