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...past as Heaney is with his dead-poets society. We spend a great deal of time with the dear and departed as it is. On a given day, I can read a Hemingway story, watch a Bette Davis movie, chomp on a Caesar salad in the Carnegie Deli and listen to a Cole Porter tune sung by Frank Sinatra as I take the F.D.R. Drive to La Guardia Airport, where I board a plane to Washington...
...years ago, they went after rap. In the '70s and '80s, DJs such as Kool Herc and Grand Wizard Theodore helped established DJing as an integral part of hip-hop culture. Craze is taking the genre further. People dance to DJs, but "turntablists" like Craze they stand and listen to, they study, they admire as they might a jazz soloist. Craze's sets are meticulously planned and carefully executed. Employing a keen ear, he locates the best grooves on a record; sliding his fingers across the vinyl, he nimbly slows down or speeds up the beat; twiddling a cross-fader...
...recent Glass money pitch for public radio hijacked the form and, I am sure, brought home the bacon. He found and interviewed a well-to-do gent who had neglected to contribute to his station. "But you listen to the station. You enjoy the programs. The station pays me. Do you think I should work for nothing?" Glass asked. "Well, no, I..." the man replied. And then there followed an impossibly long pause, which just got longer and longer, and sadder and funnier...
...name is Kevin." She was asked whether the pop star treated her as if she were a besotted fan or another musician. "Well!" Tucker said. "Total besotted fan. He didn't see me as a musician at all. He doesn't know who I am. He'd never listen to Sleater-Kinney...
...journalists would only listen...to readers talk about the changes that would make them think the press is trying to be fair, much progress could be made,” Haiman wrote...