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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Def Jam | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...fuck") which soon becomes grating. Pop culture references are good for a cheap laugh, but the "Nintendoes" and "Telemundos" are more cutesy than clever. Making the Jets co-ed adds an interesting sexual dynamic and some talent to the Jets line-up (particularly an electric Eisa Davis as A-rab, the "cool" Jet). But, even today, there are very few female gang members...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Modern Accents on the West Side | 5/3/1991 | See Source »

...country. In words and pictures she tells readers how to identify, buy, store, clean and prepare jicama, atemoya, daikon, nopales and calabaza, among dozens of others. Although some of the fruits and vegetables in this compendium are hardly uncommon to old-world chefs (celeriac, parsley root, arugula, broccoli rab and gooseberries, for example), they can be flora incognito to many new chefs. Not after this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Cook, Therefore I Am | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

From scattered western literature, for example, Cassidy has gleaned the definition of an Arizona tenor as a coughing tubercular. In Georgia, an Arab, pronounced Ay-rab in the northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blind Tigers and Manniporchia | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

DIED. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 79, urbane, politically astute Tory leader who served in seven Conservative governments and was sometimes called "the best Prime Minister Britain never had"; in Great Yeldham, Essex, England. Butler was Under Secretary of State at the India Office early in his career and helped formulate the Government of India Act of 1935, which strengthened India's provincial legislatures. As a major architect of England's social reforms and development of the welfare state, he assisted in renovating his country's penal system, modernizing the public drinking laws and shaping an education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 22, 1982 | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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