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...last two albums to generate real excitement were A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory and Cypress Hill's Cypress Hill. Since then, a rash of albums have been put out by groups more adept at marketing concepts than they are at music...

Author: By John Donahue, | Title: Is Hip Hop Out of Time? | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...Hopkins carries with a small gnomic smile that means a dozen things in a dozen scenes: gratitude, impatience, self-control. "I can say it's simple now," the actor acknowledges, "but it's taken years to distill my work to a more economic form. I suppose I'm pretty adept now at playing these rather still parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Life of Anthony Hopkins | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Blumenthal, who commented on the speech in a telephone interview last night, said that he was surprised at how "politically adept and well-constructed" the plan was. "Politically, he hits almost all the right notes," Blumenthal said...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Clinton Presents Plan For Health Care Access | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

...Breakfast over Sugar" as she tries to keep Marvin from leaving her. As Marvin's high school teacher, Rosemary Loar is generally funny in her over-the-top characterizations of the schoolmarmish yet sexually hungry Mrs. Goldberg, but her voice occasionally seems too thin. Julie Dixon seems less adept than the other two women in switching between being Marvin's high school sweetheart and being one of the chorus: while Loar and Kiley are distinctive as Marvin's wife and teacher and occasionally even let those roles seep into their chorus girl functions, it seems as though Dixon lets...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Song-Filled Crisis Over Personal Identity Carries In Trousers | 7/16/1993 | See Source »

Perhaps there is another Spy-Seagal similarity here. Both are adept at high- wire innuendo -- Spy as a key to its satirical japery, Seagal as a spur to his myth. If he did make these remarks, he may have intended them as macho provocations, as sick jokes or as acid tests -- the ultimate Spy prank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seagal Under Siege | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

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