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Badu, "the most thrilling new voice in pop" ( Time ), wins praise for bucking genres (she blends soul, jazz, and hip-hop) and writing edgy lyrics.
A Wall Street Journal front-page feature notes a way corporate America is bucking the general trend against affirmative action: The business group that certifies minority ownership of corporations is likely to drop its definition from 51 percent ownership by minority group members to 20 percent.
Both chains present themselves as bucking the aesthetic and moral poverty of corporate America.
But recently I have noticed that many of my wealthier acquaintances, people who live in tonier suburbs like Potomac, Md., or Darien, Conn., are bucking the trend toward smaller families.
The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.