Word: rap
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...standard door-to-door rap goes like this: "Good afternoon, my name is David Clark. I'm on the town council, and I'm running for state legislature." Then Clark locks eyes with his quarry. "I'm running as a Maine Clean Election candidate. I'm not asking for money; I'm asking for your vote." That makes Clark, in effect, a lab rat in a national experiment. He's one of 116 legislative candidates in Maine running with funds given under the state's Clean Elections Act. Passed by voters four years ago, it offers full public financing...
...murder illustrates how Hispanic gangs in U.S. cities are spreading their terror all over Central America. Deported to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, these delinquents not only imported the mystique of U.S. gang culture - its neo-Nazi tattoos, rap music, baggy trousers and "homey" slang - but they also brought crack cocaine, semi-automatic weapons, home-made bombs and a level of calculated aggression not seen in the region since the insurgencies and counterinsurgencies...
...artistic expression." This rhetoric, self-serving though it may be, is at least a sign that America still possesses the capacity for outrage. And outrage is an appropriate response to the brutal misogyny of Slim Shady--or the John Rocker-esque "songs" off Sixers star Allen Iverson's rap debut--or the excesses of slasher flicks and shoot-em-ups. But it is also an easy response. It is easy to demonize the purveyors of smut and violence when they target children--easy to muster outrage at the image of six-year-olds attending test screenings of the latest Schwarzenegger...
...longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band and, from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal." ("Creative differences" would have sufficed.) Guitarist Tom Morello says the band will survive with 25% less rage and that 29 tracks mastered by rap-rock producer Rick Rubin are ready for the next album. "We'll keep it loud, keep it funky and most definitely rock on." As for the lack of a lead singer, David Lee Roth is still very much available...
...montage comes from growing up in the '80s in Brooklyn with hip-hop culture. There was hip-hop art, hip-hop music, rap, dance, break. And there were films about hip-hop, but there wasn't really hip-hop techniques used in filmmaking. I wanted to try and apply that to narrative filmmaking, to sample images with sounds, and with that you could advance the story very quickly. It really works well in Requiem, because it's detailing something that's obsessive, an addiction, and it's repetitive...