Word: sires
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem intensifies with what experts call "the popular sire effect," the result of a single desirable male's being used to sire a large number of litters. Says Michigan State's Schall: "If it is later determined that the male that looked perfect has a genetic disease, he will have dispersed it widely before it gets discovered...
...death last week was, as the old show-biz line has it, a shrewd career move. The musical iconoclast, best known for his work with the seminal 1960s rock band the Mothers of Invention, was in many ways the prisoner of his own raffish image: hirsute hippie freak; countercultural sire of prototypical Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa and her siblings Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva; opinionated crank ("AIDS is a CIA plot"); and First Amendment scourge of Tipper Gore. With his death from prostate cancer, a few days short of his 53rd birthday, it may now be easier to appreciate...
...white Jewish businessman and threatened arson against Korean grocers, to the dreaded Dr. Dre, whose lyrics have also advocated violence. Last month the Los Angeles-based firm added to its own notoriety by signing up the bad boy of rap, Ice-T, after he and Time Warner's Sire label severed their ties. His inflammatory cut Cop Killer set off a fire storm of protests by police organizations...
NEAR THE END OF HIS DRAMA about an actual 19th century black stage troupe that briefly competed with Junius Brutus Booth, sire of the estimable Booth acting | clan, Carlyle Brown makes clear that much of his interest in the story is its pertinence to the multiculturalism debates of today. The African Company of 1820s New York City was, he recounts, harassed and shut down by white authorities who resented its ambition, feared its competition with white theaters (as when the Africans' Richard III was to play opposite Booth's version of the same play) and recoiled from the notion that...
Last week more people were trying to shut him down. A group of law- enforcement officials in Texas called for a boycott of Time Warner, the parent company of his record label, Sire (and of TIME) because of one of his recent tracks, Cop Killer ("I'm 'bout to bust some shots off/ I'm 'bout to dust some cops off"). Said Doug Elder, president of the Houston Police Officers Association: "You mix this with the summer, the violence and a little drugs, and they are going to unleash a reign of terror on communities all across this country...