Word: slickness
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...that kind of talk on top of a heavy riff and it could be another slick M.C. Hammer rap, the kind of bouncy, braggadocian tune that repeatedly hooked the top single spot for U Can't Touch This. Hammer, 27, is living a dream: superstardom in a flash; private jet between gigs; movie offers; and a record label, Bust It Management Productions, to call his own. And all this by being the first performer to forge an alliance between two warring camps: the poppers and the rappers...
...least in the short term -- seems to be no problem. An all- female group called En Vogue looks to have lifted its name from the same putative dance craze from which Madonna borrowed the title of her most recent hit single. They also sing a kind of wax-slick dance music that seems less written than cloned. Nevertheless, they have a No. 5 hit of their own, Hold On, and an album called Born to Sing, currently residing...
Like Madonna and Milli Vanilli, like Paula Abdul and, yes, even like Bart Simpson, the New Kids are a phenomenon whose unapologetic commerciality is part of their appeal. They are good movers and slick singers, and they drive their mostly preteen female fans into genteel frenzies. But their success can't be separated from their impact; it's part of the pop machine's new mystique. Is it real, or is it marketing...
...HARD 2. No carols or eggnog for Bruce Willis. If it's Christmas, he must be saving the world from terrorists. In Die Hard he outmuscled the bad guys in an L.A. high-rise. This time he sweats heroically in a hijacked airport. DH2 serves up another dose of slick thrills and explosive...
...walls of flame through a Phillips Petroleum plastics plant in nearby Pasadena. At the same plant on June 8, eight workers were hospitalized after a fire in a resin-producing unit. That same day explosions severely damaged the 886-ft. oil tanker Mega Borg, spewing a 30-mile-long slick off the Texas coast. Early last week traffic was halted on the busy Houston ship channel while firemen struggled to contain a roaring oil fire that shot flames more than 90 ft. into...