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Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock (Island). The year's funniest and most slaphappy dance record mixes Zulu chants, New York City jump-rope songs and hip-hop street culture into an anthropological jamboree...
Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock videos. Actually, four separate videos, all directed by McLaren, spun off from his irresistible Duck Rock album. Each is an exercise in back-beat anthropology: Double Dutch, for example, is a spectacularly simple film of some New York City schoolgirls jumping rope...
...father of four of her six children-who, she claims, "tried to murder me last year." While the ex-boyfriend's trial in Brooklyn is pending, he is free. Last month "he snatched me from in front of the house. He tried to strangle me with some rope," she says, adding that police are unwilling or unable to help. But, bristles Carter, "I am not dropping the charges. I am not going to let him scare me like that...
...play runs quickly and roughly. The ball comes out of a rope less tug-of-war of human bodies, the scrum half whips the ball out to his backs, who advance in a wedge, passing the ball along just before falling to on opponent's tackle. Sometimes the backs kick the ball; other times they get tackled, drop the ball, the forwards fight over it and the play starts again...
...fitness has other, more enticing attractions besides health. "Meeting people goes with it," says Dale Price, 29, a restaurateur in Arlington, Va., who spends a couple of hours daily playing racquet ball, pumping iron and jumping rope. "No one's hitting on someone, like in singles bars. The meeting is casual and easygoing." At some of the fancier coed clubs, the appeal is strongly sexual, and less serious members spend more time cruising poolside or matching sweatbands with leg warmers than they do working out. The laid-back atmosphere of the clubs and the sheer physicality of sleek, scantily...