Word: queens
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...period. There has not been a time since when an N.W.A was as popular as a Public Enemy, or where the storytelling of a Slick Rick could fall alongside the pimp strolls of a Too Short, or Roxanne Shante was just as necessary as a Salt 'N Pepa or Queen Latifah. A lot of us cats who have lived through most or all of the history of hip-hop are the ones who proclaim that period the golden era. Why, because we can. And because we know what we are talking about. It has nothing to do with nostalgia...
Another song I can't seem to shake is the number eight track, "What It Feels Like for a Girl," which comes off as a lyrical counterpoint to Christina Aguilera's "What a Girl Wants." In the latter, of course, the blond teen queen sings of boys who can please their girls by "knowing exactly" what they want. Madonna doesn't sympathize: "Good little girls they never show it / When you open up your mouth to speak / Could you be a little weak? / Do you know what it feels like for a girl...
...Governor Christine Todd Whitman pressured the state's fish and game council to reduce its target from 350 to 175. Instead of a hunt, foes argue, let the bears deplete their natural food supply, which would cause their numbers to drop--assuming, that is, they avoid the local Dairy Queen Dumpster. "Trophy hunting solves nothing," says Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. "People should bear-proof their garbage and close their windows while cooking...
...obsessed are they with sports that even today Australians claim the No. 1 national hero in their country's entire history is Don Bradman. Don who? No, Bradman didn't lead Australia to political independence (in fact, Aussies still bow to Britain's Queen Elizabeth) or fight off the Japanese during World War II. Rather he was a spectacular cricket player in the 1930s and '40s. It's rather like comparing Babe Ruth with George Washington...
...stone town. The softly glowing Hawkesbury sandstone, seemingly designed on some primeval color wheel to complement the Australian sun, sea and sky, was hewn from quarries in the suburbs of Bondi, Maroubra, Neutral Bay and Pyrmont. It built some of the city's greatest landmarks: the Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building, St. Mary's and St. Andrew's cathedrals. Granite came from as far away as Scotland, sitting as ballast in passenger and cargo ships; later it was quarried at Goulburn outside Sydney, and on the southern New South Wales coast at Moruya, which provided the stone...