Word: ma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect guide to life, the I-Ching for guys. Rappers seem to agree. Snoop Dogg's sophomore album was titled The Doggfather. Silkk the Shocker's new album is called Made Man. On his song Boomerang, Big Pun echoes James Cagney in White Heat, yelling, "Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world...
Before embarking on his acclaimed cycle of plays on black life in the 20th century (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), Wilson penned this early work about the denizens of a gypsy-cab company in Pittsburgh, Pa., in the late 1970s. Now, given a "definitive" rewrite by the author, it has been revived in a superlative production at the Center Stage, in Baltimore, Md. With little obvious effort, Wilson rivets our attention on the daily struggles of a half-dozen ordinary but entirely individual characters while gradually homing in on the explosive conflict between two: the cab company...
...word games or legalisms here. No "it depends on what your definition of best is." We say just the finest, ma'am. And in the realm of CINEMA, that means TOM HANKS, who follows up his Mark McGwire performance in Saving Private Ryan with a Sammy Sosa for the holidays. In TELEVISION, it means a goodbye from the nation's most beloved faux talk-show host. (Sorry, Magic.) In DESIGN, a cool house by Koolhaus. In MUSIC, a magical, defiant album by the woman formerly known as a Fugee. In THEATER, an angry drama from a member of the latest...
...Packard, Acer, even the little-known brand (Vision) that my mom got. They're virtually interchangeable so long as you get a warranty. The key is the store. A good one won't try to sell you a machine with, say, inadequate RAM or no monitor. Just ask my ma...
Perhaps the most abstract film of the four from the Ma'ale school was Hadar Friedlich's Fast of Words, an examination of the attempts of a writer, photographer and musician to spend an entire day without speaking. The remaining films were concerned with issues particular to Judaism, yet the issues were nonetheless resonant among even non-Jews. Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake...