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...list producers (MF Doom, Madlib) as well as lesser-knowns (Fantom of the Beats), provide most of the songs on “More Fish” with hearty, soulful beats. Samples of classic soul tracks have always been fertile backgrounds for Ghost, and this album shows no exceptions. One standout here is the use of Michael Jackson’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” on “Street Opera.” But that’s not to say the album has only one sound; other tracks like...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MUSIC REVIEW: Ghostface Killah | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...pidgin distributed by Papua New Guinea's Protestant and Catholic churches. Until 1972, many of the natives bought such publications only for the paper, which they used to roll their pungent plug tobacco. But then Wantok began carrying the adventures of the Phantom translated into pidgin. (Sample dialogue: "Fantom, yu pren tru bilong mi. Inap yu ken helpim mi nau?" Meaning: "Phantom, you are a true friend of mine. Are you able to help me now?") Circulation of the paper began to climb. Illiterates bought their copies and then waited patiently for public readings of their hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Fantom, Yu Pren Tru Bilong Mi | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...scholarly staffer named James O'Donnell Bennett, McCormick set out in the Trib to change Chicagoland's spelling habits. "Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly. Freighters became fraters and sheriffs sherifs. A Trib editorial proclaimed that there was "rime and reason for every alteration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No More Frater Trafic | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...five years readers of the Chicago Tribune have puzzled their way through such simplified spellings as "agast," "crum," "fantom,' "jaz," "lether," "staf," and 74 other phonetic short cuts. One day last week Tribune readers were agreeably surprised by a lead editorial headed: LACKY, PASS THE HEMLOC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hemloc Canceled | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...TRAIL OF '98 (Dolores Del Rio on the "fantom" screen), WINGS (Clara Bow and Charles Rogers), THE STRANGE CASE OF CAPTAIN RAMPER (Paul Wegener), THE LAST COMMAND (Emil Jannings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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