Word: butte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most important thing that people who have been victimized can understand, whether it is fair or unfair, and it certainly is not fair, is that change will have to come from themselves. Thomas and I are not hardhearted people who are simply saying, "Get up off your butt, pull yourself up by your bootstraps." We need government intervention to help us. But we've also got to help ourselves. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before...
...according to Miami Herald movie reviewer Bill Cosford, "a butt- kicking feminist manifesto . . . which sweeps you along for the ride." No, says Sheila Benson, a Los Angeles Times film critic, it is a betrayal of feminism, which, as she understands it, "has to do with responsibility, equality, sensitivity, understanding -- not revenge, retribution or sadistic behavior...
Ricky Ray wants to marry his 16-year-old sweetheart. That's a little young to tie the knot -- but then Ricky is only 14. Normally, says his mother Louise, she would "kick his butt" and tell him to wait. But Ricky is not normal: he has AIDS and probably not much time to live. "I don't know if I'll live two weeks, two months, two years or 100 years," he says. "I just want to spend the rest of my time with the girl I love...
...pastime in the West. Traditionally, the gibing has been mixed with an abiding envy of the California megalopolis' trend-setting dynamism. But lately no amount of envy -- or imitation -- seems enough to offset the vitriol that is being aimed at L.A. from every direction. Los Angeles has become the butt of abject opprobrium -- the "villain" of the West...
That is not to say that C+C lacks energy or an infectious sense of playfulness. A Groove of Love is a funny parody of macho music posturing, Ice- style ("Love to me means tight butt jeans/ Girls they only waste time with crushed dreams/ The mike is my bitch"). C+C's dance-music dazzlements have attracted such heavy-duty commercial talent as Mariah Carey, for whom it is helping produce the follow-up to her 4 million-selling debut album; and funk mistress Lisa Lisa, whose new record it is producing while she and Clivilles strike...