Word: rotundity
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...killings seem especially poignant, and perhaps related, due to the hostility between the two artists. The rivalry between Biggie and Tupac began after Tupac was shot in a hold-up in New York City in 1994. Tupac accused Biggie of setting him up, an accusation which the rotund rapper denied. The personal antagonism flared into opposition between New York record label Bad Boy Entertainment and the Los Angeles based Death Row Records, and then into a feud between artists representing each coast. The (white) press has been quick to attribute the two slayings to the East Coast-West Coast...
...TAKES ONLY A GLANCE AT THE REV. Al Sharpton to know that he is a man of considerable heft. What the rotund rabble rouser from New York City would like you to conclude from his autobiography, Go and Tell Pharaoh (Doubleday; 270 pages; $23.95), is that he is also a fellow of considerable substance. If only his critics could "look at me as a man and a person," he proclaims, they would realize that his racial grandstanding, inflammatory rhetoric and alleged corruption have been part of "an effort to live the gospel." By his own estimation, Sharpton has emerged...
BOOKS . . . GO AND TELL PHARAOH: "It takes only a glance at the rev. Al Sharpton to know that he is a man of considerable heft," says TIME's Jack White. "What the rotund rabble rouser would like you to conclude from his autobiography (Doubleday; 270 pages; $23.95), is that he is also a fellow of considerable substance." With the aid of his collaborator, Anthony Walton, he casts himself as a sort of 'Sharpton Lite.' He writes with calculated candor about aspects of his life that can be counted on to spark empathy -- for instance, his early career as a traveling...
DIED. DARREN ROBINSON, 28, one of the Fat Boys, three rotund rappers of the 1980s who praised hip-hop, hedonism and high cholesterol in a series of gold albums and boisterous B films; of cardiac arrest during a bout of the flu; in New York City...
...beautiful French film, "The Monk and the Fish," (an Oscar nominee) creates a luminous monastery and aquaduct out of watercolors--and a fish-obsessed Monk to go along with it. The musical bouncing of the thoroughly rotund monk and the similarly entrancing splashing of the elusive little fish create a visual dance. That the monk is nearly mad with the chase only adds to the enjoyment...