Word: mamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus traditional children's tales are being set to a contemporary beat. "I been rapping with kids for a long, long time/ Even your parents know my rhymes," chirps a character called Mama Goose on MCA's Nursery Rhymes Rap. And although many new songs continue to deal with subjects like eating vegetables or coping with siblings, some grapple with difficult family issues. "You see, Timmy's dad was married/ To his mom a while ago/ But now they are divorced/ Sometimes that's the way things go," sings Craig Taubman, who also records for Disney...
Children at the orphanage "Proyecto Casa Guatemala," on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, grow under the loving if transient care of international volunteers. Travellers who stop here for a week or a month quickly learn to be mama and papa, as there is no permanent staff in charge of the children...
...They told me, 'Time to put in some work for your homies. Here's the gun. There's the car. Get up and go, boy.' " In other words, welcome to the big time, Jimmy. Time to prove your stuff by shooting some rivals. Try not to hit someone's mama or baby, but mainly just pull the trigger bang bang bang -- and don't lose the damned...
...Mama Rita thinks the steady Arthur is the best thing that ever happened to Patrick. Father James is half in love with Loreen, Tony's determined fiance. In touchingly comic ways, these parents -- mismatched themselves -- are determined to see their offspring securely in wedlock, as if the kids could not function on their...
...Jelly's Last Jam fails as dramaturgy, it succeeds much of the time as bouncy entertainment, thanks to four people. Mary Bond Davis is a first-rate upholstered mama. Tonya Pinkins is sultry, sharp-tongued and sweet-voiced as Morton's love interest. Savion Glover, 18, outdoes his own brilliant best in tap-dancing the role of the young Jelly. And as the mature Jelly, Gregory Hines vibrates with the kind of glorious triple-threat talent -- as singer, dancer and actor -- that Broadway used to revel in but hardly ever witnesses anymore...