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Word: bustin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funk, from that FUNky B.O. growing in your pits, from the stink between the sheets, with the bass bustin' out and the grooves hangin', ever-e-thang 'cept opera & polka, the visible line from Zapp to Zappa, gee-tars 'n' horns 'n' cong-Os and voices voices singin 'n' screamin 'n' chanting 'n' shouting...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...movie summer promises more women who take their life -- and a gun -- in their own hands. Kathleen Turner will play a tough private eye in V.I. Warshawski. Even the budget-bustin' action-adventure Terminator 2 offers a strong female figure: Linda Hamilton is an embattled mother powerful enough to square off alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender Bender Over Thelma & Louise | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...players who noticed his resemblance to home-run king Hammerin' Hank Aaron (the M.C., added later, stands for Master of Ceremonies, rapspeak for band leader). After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Hammer borrowed some start-up cash from a couple of A's outfielders to launch Bustin' Records. He couldn't play an instrument, and he sang with more enthusiasm than finesse, but his first album, 1988's Let's Get It Started, produced three Top 10 singles. And those hits have just kept on coming. The proof, he'd say, is in the numbers. If Hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: M.C. Hammer: U Can't Touch Him | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

Williams has saturated the airwaves with 30-second TV spots, some featuring Williams on horseback, backlighted by the setting sun. The ads are lavishly shot on film rather than videotape, for higher quality. In one tough-talking commercial, he promises to "introduce ((drug pushers)) to the joys of bustin' rocks." Of the $8.4 million Williams has invested in the race, $6.2 million has come from his own very deep pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cowpoke for Governor? | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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