Word: mackin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French and their attitude toward personal hygiene and body odor [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 15], made me think of the anecdote about Samuel Johnson, who was more fastidious about his language than his hygiene. "Mr. Johnson, you smell," said his female companion. "No, madam," he replied. "You smell, I stink." TOM MACKIN Bedminster...
...stack of hip-hop records in order to understand Atlanta in the '90s for his best-selling book A Man in Full. In several sections of his novel, Wolfe offers his own sly parodies of today's rap styles: "How'm I spose a love her/ Catch her mackin' with the brothers," Wolfe writes in a passage. "Ram yo' booty! Ram yo' booty!" Most of the characters in A Man in Full are a bit frightened by rap's passion. It's Wolfe's view that "hip-hop music quite intentionally excludes people who are not in that world." That...
...What happens to small, independent businesses like ours that have a hard time paying the top sexy rent in the Square?" Mackin asked...
...understand why I'm sad to move out all you have to do is look out the window," said Christopher Mackin, president of Ownership Associates, Inc., which has been in the building since 1994. Mackin's window looks down on the information booth in the heart of the Square...
...Mackin elaborated upon his point. "It's notjust people who are newly arrived who will beaffected. It's also people who have lived here foryears and have never become citizens. It could beyour grandparents," she said...