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Which is a damn shame, because rap has always made the musical world far more interesting, not only through its sharp, well engineered sounds, but also by the way it has always thumbed its nose at the conventional standards of society. While the ideas that gangsta rap preaches, such as cop killing, are far from condonable, they are presented with such obvious showmanship that ultimately the music is simply a harmless, creative outlet. Although gangsta rap is clearly fading, there are still several bright spots remaining, one being the West Coast trio of Cypress Hill...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: High Hopes for Rap | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...shame that more people don't write. I'm not sure whether people are being discouraged or whether there just aren't as many writers as there once were. But people have the means to do it--it's a very unique opportunity, and I encourage people to take advantage...

Author: By Glenn A. Reisch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Shades of Blue': Credit Where Due | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Hung, who has been a star of comedy-action films in Hong Kong since the 1970s. The result is a series that will win no Emmys but is highly entertaining, and whose sheer craft, at least in its choreography and acrobatics, puts most of the rest of TV to shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mean Unlean Machine | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...truths. The chief ships an Inuit boy and his mother to the U.S., live specimens, and there she dies. That the naturalist manages to return the boy to his people is no victory, but merely--in a novel that moves like an advancing ice age--a partial payment of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Voyage Of The Narwhal | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Maybe Clinton's place in history will not be the greatest. We can only guess. On the other hand, the place in history of the people who kept this entire investigation going for so long won't be so great either. Shame on us! BILLY WETTERER Wood River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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