Word: men
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game: to pursue meant to woo, and to bed meant to wed. Sexual modesty fostered not only a more civil society but also a sexier world. A glimpse of a knee, the graze of a shoulder sent shivers. Delicious! But now women are encouraged to be like men, and what a mess it is. The refined has been replaced by the vulgar, and sex has become just the thing you do on the third date. Is it surprising that girls lack self-esteem, that sexual harassment abounds, that men act like boys and women ultimately sit home alone? If only...
...little logging town hasn't been quite the same since June 7, 1998, when a black man was chained to the back of a pickup and dragged three miles to his death, pieces of him, including his head, falling by the wayside. Now the first of three white men accused of the crime is up for trial, and the pesky flock of media and the noisy host of activists who swept into town last year have returned...
Outside the courthouse last week, men were hawking T shirts with photos of Byrd, along with CDs and hats bearing the slogan THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY, JASPER, TEXAS. LOVE, PEACE & HARMONY. Last Wednesday, Quanell X, leader of Houston's National Black Muslims, showed up with a cadre of black-clad bodyguards, proclaiming what happened to Byrd "a lynching, not a murder," and briefly challenging Judge Joe Bob Golden's order barring demonstrations. Quanell X and his men finally agreed to sit quietly in court...
...takes the basic Gang of Four plot (four streetwise young men fall into a lot of trouble) and expands it exponentially. His story has four gangs of four, and three other tough-guy twosomes, all trying to screw or do in their rivals. Since Tarantino revived the crime genre, it has devolved into a contagion, a virtual pulp affliction, of high body counts and low quality; it needed new blood, and not just from the effects department. That's where Ritchie comes to the rescue...
...Antonio ("L.A.") Reid, Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds, Dallas Austin and TLC, the album is a savvy blend of bouncy pop-rap, sharp R. and B., and smooth balladry. The lyrics are playful but blunt: on Silly Ho, the group puts down gold diggers; on No Scrubs, it upbraids unambitious men. The album shows signs of artistic growth: on Unpretty, Watkins sings movingly about the way in which society's beauty myths can destroy one's self-esteem. It's a more introspective song than the trio has attempted in the past...