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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just how often can even the fastest rapper describe oral sex or genitalia on a 79-minute album? More often than you would think possible, according to Focus on Family, an evangelical group that made a bluenosed and bug-eyed tabulation of the vulgarities in 2 Live Crew's controversial, hot-selling album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. It's dirty work, but somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Nasty Is Nasty? | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...abundance of worrisome competitors -- several young enough to be her daughters. Says Patrice Clerc, director of the French Open: "Tennis is getting to be a younger and younger sport. We've seen something similar in gymnastics and swimming, and now we're seeing it here." The fastest-rising women are actually girls. Monica Seles, 16, beat Navratilova in the finals of the Italian Open in May, then won her next two tournament finals against Graf, including the French Open, where she became the youngest winner in this century of a Grand Slam title. The penultimate player Seles beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stalking Memories At Wimbledon | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Springer himself met with more challenges as a camp counselor. Often games intended to be cooperative became violent, "like, 'let's see who can be thrown out of the circle fastest...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Speaking Singly, He Invokes a Nation's Conscience | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Last week, Rainey competed in the NCAA track and field championships once again, this time finishing third in the fastest 800-meter race run in the world this year...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: Year of Women's Athletics | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...Favor finished with a strong kick and sprinted across the line with the fastest 800 time so far this year. Jasmine Jones nipped Rainey at the line for second place...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Rainey Runs Her Personal Best; Still Finishes Third at NCAAs | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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