Word: flashes
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Although--as rap godfather Grandmaster Flash pointed out in a recent adulatory Phoenix feature, the genre may have already passed its peak--the unwashed masses getting funkmatized. It seems inevitable that rap music will be sucked into the mainstream, just as have fringe musical elements in the past...
About "Space Cowboy" It is the catchiest and most exciting dance music on the air and in the discos--forget about the Flash and Safety Dances--because it is an unabashedly silly song that just feels right, sort of like the Jacksons...
...ridiculously baaaaad Fearless 4 rap comes off as nothing more than stupid and mindless, and should have been made obsolete in the wake of Grandmaster Flash's shock classics. "The Message" and "New York New York" In any case, this sort of rap has been handled much more effectively and with much less hoopla by the Sugarhill Gang and Trouble Funk a couple of years back...
Some suspender wearers go for out-and-out flash. Lewis Preston, chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust, wears a pair of bright red braces. Even at Brooks Brothers, the citadel of conservative fashion, suspenders can be found in 28 different colors, from canary yellow to wild pink. Says Assistant Buyer Karen Clark: "Braces are one way these men can be kind of crazy within a perfectly acceptable realm. It allows them a bit of individuality...
Fifty years is a long time. Perhaps Eddie Murphy will show nothing more than firefly form: a flash of lightning followed by critical and popular pans. Perhaps he will tire of squeaky-clean living and head for Pryor-like self-immolation. Perhaps he will cease to be an entertainment event and become an agreeable habit, working a Vegas lounge, living on tired blood and the public's memories. But if he keeps going as he is going now-young, gifted, black and hot-he can hope for the ultimate backhanded compliment. On a Saturday Night Live in 2033, some...