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BECK’S ‘GUERO’ DELIGHTS
Beck Hansen is a white boy -- a fact that he embraces in the title of his latest album, “Guero.” It’s the name he was often called while growing up in a predominantl Latin neighborhood of downtown LA-- Spanish slang for “white boy.” Yet with “Guero,” Beck manages to transcend sheer white-boy sensibilities, fusing hip-hop, Latin and folk influences for a new breed of white-boy rap that puts to shame anything Eminem ever did.
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 Contemplating legacies
It is a shred of immortality we all hope to somehow attain. Maybe it’s like this -- somewhere there is a shy girl or boy, too timid to tell the object of their affections about their love, or to even approach them without shaking, or to speak in scho ... more |
 Bestseller actually ‘bullshit’
Harry G. Frankfurt’s name is almost too rich to be real. It makes a person very suspicious when picking up his latest book, “On Bullshit.” According to the back page of this work, he wrote several other, more serious, texts. The tiny 67 page treatis ... more
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