Word: graf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical demigod like yourself, it shouldn't be too difficult to envision your girl's heaven: constant breakdancing showcases of precarious elasticity and acrobatics; trains bombed for everyone to enjoy the bangin'-est graf pieces since the first street kid fiddled with aerosol paint: DJ battles where everybody's at least as nice as Roc Raider: every MC rhymes at least two syllables every couplet...
...mean really anticipated. The sizeable graf piece in Soho dedicated to Black Star can corroborate this hierarchy of expectancy: first Christ, then Rakim, then Black Star. These cats managed to be interviewed by everybody, even when we thought the album was supposed to be an EP. Then they put forth "Definition," a first single that achieved the seemingly impossible--i.e. reusing BDP's "1-2-3" hook and still coming off--and then slowly gave the world little tastes of glories to come, such as tracks featuring Common and underground hero Wordsworth's best appearance on wax to date. Everyone...
There have always been compelling rivalries in women's tennis: Billie Jean King and Margaret Court; Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert; Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. And young, talented players, overwhelmed by the pressures of success, have often alienated their tour mates. But in the past, there was room for just two great rivals at a time. "Now," says Butch Buchholz, chairman of the Lipton and Pilot Pen tournaments, "we have a handful of names that sell tickets, which makes the appeal wider and the product just better...
...younger echelon has never been quite so sassy before--a fact that has served only to highlight the maturity of their eminently graceful elders. While preparing for the French Open in May, Hingis noted that Graf--who had just announced her return after an injury--was past her prime. ("Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," says Graf.) At Wimbledon, Venus Williams threw a volcanic tantrum over a line call in her battle against Novotna. (Novotna on the histrionics: "I don't even look at her.") And the younger crew is not shy about its narcissism. When British tabloids published...
...Graf managed to fix the clock's originaltime-keeping mechanisms and preserve the oldparts, an achievement of little consolation tomany students...