Word: hop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These are the popular, still largely correct, tourist-poster views of that playground of the New World: the Caribbean. Sadly, in recent years less enticing images have begun to intrude. They show thick plumes of exhaust spilling from new oil refineries; bubbling, dark cesspools of untreated wastes only a hop away from beaches jammed by tourists; mountainsides scarred by open-pit mining and hardscrabble agricultural plots. The vacation paradise now faces the spread of environmental blight at an alarming rate...
Toeing the Reagan line and keeping up appearances as a feminist would seem to be mutually exclusive tasks for mere mortal women. Nevertheless. Heckler has been trying since 1979, hop-scotching on issues like the Squeal Rule, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the effects of Reagan's budget cuts on women, and doing what political writer Charles Pierce of the Boston Phoenix calls "the abortion tapdance." According to Joshua Resnek, her former campaign press secretary. Margaret Heckler put Pierce at the top of her list of reporters not to be talked to--right after Chris Black, the Boston Globe...
...hop is black, young and ineffably, unflappably cool: "chilly the most." It also shows signs of traveling well. Groups like The Bronx's Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tour the country, and some new wave nightspots have devoted evenings to the new street music where post-punkers can check out the sartorial flash of the hip hoppers. There are already rap clubs in London, and last summer's No. 1 song on the German charts was a bit of Euro-rap called Der Kommissar...
...certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman calls "absurd humor." He sees it as a deliberate mockery of the preppie look, of "the powers that be. Sheepskin contradicts the hip hop aesthetic because it's kind of organic, kind of hippie. But it's status-oriented because it's expensive...
...Bronx break dancer named Crazy Legs took a recent trip to Chicago, wearing his hat at a precarious 45° angle, a local told him, "You better not wear your cap that way 'cause you could get hurt. Somebody could think you're a gangster." Still, hip hop has been downtown long enough that stylistic confusion like this is a little less frequent. Every Friday night, crews of rappers make the trip from The Bronx to the lower West Side of Manhattan, where they do their stuff at a roller disco called the Roxy. The crowd there...