Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boyz released their debut CD just after the Milli Vanilli lip-synching scandal. It was a cynical time for pop music. Vanilla Ice had a best-selling pseudo-rap album; New Kids on the Block had gone multiplatinum. Were there any real singers left? Was everyone as fake as Rob and Fab's hair extensions? The answer to these questions was Boyz II Men. Cooleyhighharmony was quality, old-school music, and its success paved the way for a new generation of singing groups, including Shai...
Though the U.S. steps are designed to rob Castro of a safety vent to defuse unrest in his country, the number of Cubans taking to the sea did not immediately diminish in the wake of Clinton's pronouncements. On Friday, about 575 refugees arrived; Saturday brought another 861. Moreover, the President's stiffened economic sanctions will only increase the tensions that send Cubans dashing toward the beaches in the first place. At the same time, Castro's castaways must now swallow a humiliating demotion in status. The waning of superpower rivalry has weakened Cubans' claims to being fugitives from political...
...infatuation with twisted minds. The $34 million movie is so manic, so violent, so seemingly at one with the subject it satirizes, that Warner Bros. was reportedly spooked about a potential fire storm. Now the execs say they are feeling better. "I'm encouraged and excited," says marketing boss Rob Friedman. "The media response has been overwhelmingly positive...
North too is in touch with the supernatural. Wherever he goes, a nameless figure played by Bruce Willis turns up in various guises to help him. Director Rob Reiner strives hard for the tones of a fable, but the result is far from fabulous. There is something smug about North, and about the entire movie. All the substitute parents he interviews are as selfish as North's folks are, and the movie posits a mass movement in which other kids, all spoiled rotten, attempt to emulate North. At least the lost boys in the other movies have authentic problems...
Sharing offices "would really rob people offlexibility, and that is really the driving force"behind the movement to give every faculty memberhis or her won office...