Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late '80s, dancehall had reached the U.S., where it found its audience in the growing legions of hip-hop fans who earlier had been put off by reggae's relatively laid-back vibes. Armed with hip-hop's sexually suggestive stance and a souped-up, aggressive beat, dancehall performers like Snow, Shabba Ranks and Shaggy have reinvigorated the music and muscled their way up the U.S. charts...
...Delta Clipper-Experimental (or DC-X) is quite real, and its brief maiden voyage last week -- space engineers called it a "bunny hop" -- could signal the start of a new era in space travel. A grandchild of the original Star Wars program, the Delta Clipper is designed to accomplish precisely what the space shuttle promised but never delivered: cheap, dependable access to space...
...Brien, the tousle-haired comedy writer plucked from obscurity by producer Lorne Michaels, will try to fill Letterman's old chair on NBC. Leno, feeling the competitive heat, has had his mug plastered on billboards around the country, while Arsenio Hall, despite slipping ratings, is still a hip-hop force to reckon with. Add to that Ted Koppel's sturdy (and frequently top-rated) Nightline and wild cards like Rush Limbaugh, and you have the most hotly contested, creatively bustling time period in television. "Late night," says Leno, "is just about the only place on network TV where anything interesting...
...Jazzing Up Hip-Hop...
...wind down from one of the most electrifying rock shows ever staged? If you're U2, the indefatigable Irish quartet, the answer is you don't. Riding the wave of its audacious 1991 album, Achtung Baby, the group has spent the past 15 months hop-scotching the globe with the Zoo TV tour, a futuristic, high-voltage extravaganza that has packed stadiums from Berlin to Los Angeles, and is scheduled to end in Australia next November. But just when most bands would be lurching for the finish line, U2 has struck while the muse is hot and re-energized itself...