This much-praised extravaganza, which had a test run at Irving Plaza in March, is the next step forward into backwardness: one of the first big touring rap oldies bills, with Slick Rick, Stetsasonic, U.T.F.O., Special Ed, Kool Moe Dee, Big Daddy Kane, Whodini and more.
New York's backwardness on this issue hurts public confidence in the judiciary.
The wait was so long a full century passed after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865 before the South would rise again for just one reason: race.Race kept the South fixed in economic backwardness and one-party politics, and only with the liberation of southern blacks could the liberation of southern whites follow.
Brena's music painted a chilling portrait of rural backwardness in the SFRY, one drastically at odds with the party line.
On the one hand, Muslim men's treatment of "their" women is seen as a sign of their backwardness and barbarity.
Then everyone will recognize their retreat, cultural backwardness, division and inability to deal with one another on the one hand, and with the world on the other.
But Sam, for one, would sneer at such backwardness, and "Birdman," right now, is on the money.
The white paper adds no new conditions to existing ones for the possible use of force against Taiwan, and much of the white paper concentrates on China's military backwardness.
Newman and the narrator both live in this song, and so we get an inseparable blend of sarcasm, defensiveness, and critique from competing voices: one that disdains the South for its backwardness, another that rips the North for its hypocrisy, and a united voice that loves and loathes the whole mess of shame, arrogance, hatred, and dogged perseverance that is our American inheritance.
At least some of golf's backwardness can be explained (if not justified) on historical grounds.
Igbo ostracisation, he says, is "one of the main reasons for the country's continued backwardness".
