Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...brief return to the noxious '90s, a brouhaha for which not many people are nostalgic." This is a clear example of a writer getting carried away by his powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90s, but maybe people like us, who come from the L.A. ghetto, don't count. When Bill Clinton dies, the streets of Washington will be thronged with weeping, praying mourners. But they won't be like the people who watched Reagan's funeral procession. Many of Clinton's mourners will be people who actually live in Washington : black people. Victoria Brago...
...died today after years of liver ailments, had a decent run by early rock ?n roll-star standards. He didn?t kill himself with drugs or junk food or (of course) reckless driving. But though he was in his mid-20s when he broke out of the race-music ghetto into the rock mainstream, Charles always seemed older. He came to fame grown-up. The hillbilly contingent of proto-rock - Elvis and Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly, all long gone - seemed like slick teenagers busting with musical testosterone. They sang with green urgency about what they wanted...
...voice and a personality that pops. But personality, and a memorable personal story, can cut two ways. Barrino, 19, is the single mother of a 2-year-old girl, Zion, a fact some fans in online forums have tut-tutted. Others don't like her boldness. "People call me 'ghetto,'" she says, over a goodbye kiss-off dinner for John Stevens, Idol's Sinatraesque teenage crooner, at Mr. Cecil's California Ribs in Sherman Oaks. "I'm loud, and I have a big personality. People took me to be arrogant because I talked back to Simon...
...praise funky men--in particular, the funky men of OutKast. For no one has done more than Andre (3000) Benjamin, above left, and Antwan (Big Boi) Patton to infuse pop music with the wit and wiggle of ghetto Bohemianism, no one has done more for tent-size throwback jerseys and cumulus-cloud Afros, and no one has done more to unite the crumbling cultural terrain...
...comes from a cop family, and after graduation he drifted back to New York City and the Job. His real education began at Police Service Area 7, also known as Claremont Village, a rough housing project in the Bronx, and that's where Blue Blood begins. "The ghetto could be a world of three-dimensional, 360 insult," he discovers, "where no one had enough so they ruined what they had, and then came looking for yours." He learns to turn his hat around while patrolling dark stairwells--to minimize telltale reflections--and to expect a sergeant to touch a beat...