Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, some of the same people who made that great music in the past are still working hard today. Curtis Mayfield, who was paralyzed in a tragic stage accident in Brooklyn in 1990, is certainly the most inspiring example. His album New World Order, released in 1996, showed everyone that it was the younger generation that was truly handicapped...
Brit Hadden, who had grown up in Brooklyn and was, much more than Luce, a true product of middle-class America, wanted TIME to be the witty, sophisticated, even cynical voice of his generation--something like a newsman's version of H.L. Mencken's popular magazine The Smart Set. But to Luce, TIME had a different purpose. It was to be a vehicle of moral and political instruction, a point of connection between the world of elite ideas and opinion and middle-class people in the "true" America hungry for knowledge...
Last week the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cards again, and this time the pennant--and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4 1/2-game lead--was at stake. The Cards were fighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again--this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe Garagiola...
When OL' DIRTY BASTARD, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, left his Brooklyn studio on Monday, he was met with the sight of a 4-year-old girl trapped under a 1996 Mustang that had run her over. O.D.B. and several members of his posse rushed to the rescue and helped lift the car off her body; he later visited her while she was recovering in the hospital. Then, at Wednesday's otherwise boring Grammy awards, O.D.B., who had lost an award to Sean ("Puffy") Combs, tried to add some excitement by rushing to the stage, grabbing the mike...
...Some of our students applied to 30 differentoutside scholarships," says Gail A. Reilly, acounselor at Brooklyn's Technical High School...