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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apartments, marooned in a landscape bereft of opportunity. By day, mothers struggle to keep their children from playing on the enclosed porches for fear they will be shot. Inside, there are rats in the incinerator shafts, cockroaches in the hall and a stench in the elevators. "Robert Taylor ain't no future for no one," says Lasonya Evans, 20, who lives here with her aunt. "People have stopped dreaming. They don't have no more dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW A FEW FIREMEN CREATED A SAFE HAVEN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...cool and yeah/She's my monosyllabic girl"). On a more critical note, the scathing, frenetic "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite" opens So Long with fiery skate punk underground attack on corporate A&R sharks, summed up in the song's closing dictate, "This music ain't your fuckin' industry...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pop Punk Veterans Just Coasting with New Album | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...definitely going with an 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach to our game," Glass said. "We've been improving all season, so we're going to maintain our current level of play and just try to pick it up a little in each game we play. In the NCAA, if you lose one game you're out, so we're going to put all we have into each game and just take it one step at a time...

Author: By Katherine E. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Soccer to Face UMass in NCAA First Round Again | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...President says fast track "is not dead." But it ain't exactly living. Clinton stayed up until the wee small hours on Sunday but still had to concede defeat after House Speaker Newt Gingrich informed him they were about six votes short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Track Derailed | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Easy" is another. "200 Years" (referring to the U.S. bicentennial) starts off with a chanted refrain of "the emperor wears no clothes" and turns into an incoherent criticism of government dishonesty. "Yeah, It's That Easy" treats the issue of race relations with similar heavy-handedness. And unlike "This Ain't Living," a similarly conceived song from the first album, there isn't enough musically to rescue these performances. What G. Love does well lyrically is describe romantic relationships, both dysfunctional and heavenly. At least such lyrics don't detract from the music. G. Love's music doesn't lend...

Author: By Abraham J. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Defying Genre No Longer a Novelty for G. Love | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

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