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...almost feel the bodies rubbing against each other in a disco ball glow. While her recent work has focused on her politics and the “bigger” questions, “Confessions” steers clear from anything controversial, a big change for the Queen of Pop. On the track “I Love New York,” in a rare display of self-censorship, she tells Big Apple naysayers to “f-off,” a far cry from her “Erotica” days. The album?...
...production or songwriting. “Drugs, Basketball, & Rap” falls prey to the same fate as the “message” tracks on “The Beautiful Struggle.” Instead of sensitively presenting the listener with his profound thoughts, he panders to pop convention with trite choruses and aluminum beats.Talib adopts enough contradictory guises on this album to make a schizophrenic blush. “The Beast,” “Who Got It,” and “Roll Off Me” attempt to roll...
...force. Law enforcement turned a blind eye to the arbitrary, nonsensical rules drafted by Yale and instead concerned themselves with the safety of students. Thus, tailgates continued into the third and fourth quarter, drinking games were played, and giddy young adults gyrated atop U-Hauls in tune with blaring pop and hip-hop. Apparently, and this is no doubt news to Captain Evans, tailgating safety can be ramped up without quashing beer-fueled merriment. It should also be noted that, unlike at Harvard, kegs were allowed at this year’s tailgate at Yale. We have long argued that...
...Estens and his team have had success in Moree (pop. 10,250), a place known for its artesian baths and, since the 1950s, its festering racial tensions, crime, poverty and social dysfunction. Forty years ago, Moree was one of the key stops on the Freedom Ride, led by Charles Perkins and other students, to draw attention to discrimination against blacks. In 1997, Estens started the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES), a not-for-profit company that tries to find work for indigenous people through corporate partnerships; going beyond the standard approaches of employment agencies, the AES is staffed solely by indigenous...
...meaning that something is lost. The long, dirty, painful, and fundamentally base march of the disease is largely ignored. Unlike “Angels in America,” or even “Philadelphia,” “Rent”’s pop-rock songs and video montages fail to show the horror of AIDS, losing the essence of what is, at its heart, a terrible tragedy.“Rent” is at its most disgustingly absurd where HIV/AIDS and poverty intersect. The film’s characters can?...