Word: hops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dancing that goes by a couple of generic styles and several specific names. Like spray-painted murals down the side of a New York City subway, or a ghetto blaster carried on a shoulder broadcasting 130 beats a minute all over a Bronx street, this subculture, nicknamed hip hop, is about assertiveness, display, pride, status and competition, particularly among males. Clothes are not only a part of this offhand cultural statement; they are a kind of uniform for cultural challenge...
...Bruce A. Hop Cedar Rapids, Iowa
...Volkswagen Rabbit, introduced in 1975 as the replacement for the homely but lovable Beetle, has never won as secure a place in the hearts of American car buyers. Last week Volkswagen dealers began showing off a racy new Rabbit model called the GTI that is designed to put some hop back into the elderly car line. Mixing its animal metaphors, Volkswagen describes the GTI as "a wolf in sheep's clothing." In fact, it is a slickly styled jack rabbit, with new trim and a bigger engine, that is designed to be driven like a sports...
...preening pitcher, has won ten straight games. So Palmer is going to outlast Weaver after all. Neither man brooks any opinion but his own, and they have been legendary adversaries. "Every single gray hair I got," says Weaver, 52, "I got from Palmer." Once, when Earl was hopping mad at Palmer, Palmer chose the moment of Weaver's highest hop to say, "Earl, I've never seen you look so tall." Weaver is 5 ft. 6½ in. tall...
Growing up is learning to hop from the self, the family and the world without getting wet feet. In David Plante's two previous novels of the Francoeur family, these slippery steppingstones have protruded from still, deep waters. The Family, nominated for a National Book Award in 1979, introduced the French-Canadian clan at home in Providence. Papa was a machinist, and his wife, mother of seven sons, a closet hysteric. Son Daniel, then an adolescent, proved to be a precocious observer and subtle dramatist of domestic conflict. In The Country (1981), Daniel was, like Providence-born Plante...