Word: mama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Never Rains in Southern California, but these were the kind of middling pop songs that you begin to like only after hearing them several dozen times on a radio station you're too lazy to change. The Tonyies' new material is more sophisticated, emotionally and musically. Tell Me Mama consciously evokes the best of the Jackson 5 (without copying them), and then inventively toys with the groove in a horn break. Near the end of the funky What Goes Around Comes Around, the Tonyies throw in a reggae rap, performed by Trinidadian rapper General Grant. And on the 9-minute...
...week they shared with TIME the letters they have written for Jessica to read in the future. "Often you have comforted me," Robby writes, "calmed down my fears and taken away my tears . . . But when the tears begin to fall and you look at me for reassurance and say, 'Mama's heartbroken,' I will not be able to console you with my loving kisses and say, 'It will all mend.' " And then mother turns on mother. "It will never mend, Jessi. It is Cara and the law that ((have)) broken you into a thousand pieces...
...Thai embassy in Tokyo repatriates about 250 escapees. But Japanese officialdom has been largely indifferent to the plight of prostitutes, and there are several recorded instances in which police, especially in rural areas, have handed escaping girls back to their abusers. Three recent murders -- Thai prostitutes who killed their "Mama-sans," or female bosses, while trying to escape -- are focusing attention on the women's plight. Citizens' groups, believing the accused are less in the wrong than the deceased, are lobbying for a fair trial. "When I arrived in March 1991, I realized I was sold," Gun, 25, wrote...
...class she met a man named Paul Fatta. He was somewhat controversial; he claimed that the Adventists got some of the Bible wrong. But, says Kathy's mother Isabel, who is in her 40s, "Paul was a nice guy, very caring, and seemed to be smart. I met his mama." Husband Guillermo looks at his hands. "This Paul Fatta is alive," he says. "The FBI is looking...
...severely been trimmed, radically changing the lives of many salarymen. The Ginza in Tokyo once sported 4,000 clubs where businessmen passed the late hours drinking, eating and chatting with young hostesses. Several hundred clubs have been forced to close, and many more are up for sale. Yuri Hirota, mama-san at the Club 48, used to keep an employee at the phone all night doing nothing but summoning hard-to-get taxis. Now cabs can be hailed by stepping out the door, but penny-pinching customers prefer to take trains -- and since the last ones leave...