Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century turns to double zero, a new generation of Latin artists, nurtured by Spanish radio, schooled in mainstream pop, are lifting their voices in English. Of this group, Martin is the hottest; Lopez, 28, the most alluring; Anthony, 29, the most artistic. With Hispanics poised to become America's largest minority group within the next few years, this music could be the sound of your future. Latin-tinged pop is blowing up because it fits the musical times: it has a bit of the street edge of hip-hop (Lopez worked with rapper Sean ["Puffy"] Combs on one track...
...Menudo's vida loca. He visited Italy, Japan, Guam and Spain before he was old enough to shave. During one stretch, he and his young bandmates played for a month in Brazil (singing in Portuguese), then flew to the Philippines (singing in English) before returning to Latin America for a series of shows in Spanish. Life became a blur...
...America fascinated him. In his work he turned it into a country as schematized, imaginative and compelling as the America of the Weill-Brecht opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: flat horizons broken by buttes or movie palaces, bulbous baroque autos, all-leg girls and cowboys teetering on their high heels like stilts. Never vagrant or fussy, always economical, his line described conundrums that were at the heart of an artist's identity concerns: a little image, for instance, of a man with a pen whose drawn nib is drawing himself. To Steinberg, each drawing remade...
...REPORT, May 3], Nancy Gibbs included stories of heroism and love that honored the young people involved. Through her writing, the impossible was achieved--I was able to feel hope instead of anger and hatred toward the murderers. Instead of obsessing and debating about the evil that has infected America, I began to feel pride in the youths who stood up for one another, for their teacher and for God. KAREN ERICKSON Albuquerque...
...violence. I have also noticed that a lot of people are blaming these acts on a troubled childhood in which these students are singled out by their peers. But I believe that the main reasons for these crimes are the Internet and easy access to guns. The children of America should be the ones most involved in seeking out signs of a disturbed youngster. Students can observe things on a closer and more personal level than adults can. And people should be completely aware that this type of incident can happen anywhere. JAKE DOUGLAS, 14 Edison...