Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music was once called a fad, but it's now celebrating a 20th anniversary of sorts. The first hip-hop hit, Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang, came out in 1979. Hip-hop got its start in black America, but now more than 70% of hip-hop albums are purchased by whites. In fact, a whole generation of kids--black, white, Latino, Asian--has grown up immersed in hip-hop. "I'm hip-hop every day," declares 28-year-old Marlon Irving, a black record-store employee in Portland...
...Brown was reportedly worried about helping the law. To know what a remarkable kid he was, one has to understand the community around him. When gang leaders commandeered swaths of Bridgeport and other cities in the early 1990s, the never easy task of finding witnesses became all but impossible. A 1996 federal study found that law officers in eight urban areas reported that violent acts of witness intimidation "occur on a daily or weekly basis." In Los Angeles a stunning 1,000 homicides in the first half of the decade went unsolved because no one stepped forward...
...fall season was a disaster for the network, which swiftly shelved three of its five new series. Only That '70s Show and Brimstone have a shot at renewal. That dismal record cost entertainment president Peter Roth his job. Doug Herzog, the executive who brought the South Park gang to Comedy Central, was named his replacement in November but is only just now taking the reins...
...made Goody, voiced by Murphy, a gruff but endearing tour guide through a community of eccentric black and Latino characters. Their stories, from the attempted rehabilitation of a local porn theater to Goody's battle to save his beloved new front door from the ravages of spray-paint-wielding gang-bangers, take a warmhearted but hard-eyed look at contemporary urban life. The show looks gorgeous. The milieu is fresh. The scripts are funny. Oh, and did we mention Eddie Murphy...
Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) was, in fact, Dublin's master thug in the 1980s, leader of a gang that pulled off a string of gaudy robberies, and also a great local celebrity. Constantly tailed by the police, he went boldly about the city but always with his face hidden, if only by his own hands. Mocking authority in this way, he enhanced his mystery, hence his power...