Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pseudo-war chant songs make rap sound melodic. Yes, the plot is thin and predictable and the execution as slick as a frat-party drag show. All that has little to do with why a featherweight send-up of the men's back-to- primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans of the departing sitcom Cheers, wondering how to cope without their favorite palookas, a two-hour maintenance dose of Norm, the fat, idle, beer-guzzling oaf with the inexplicably likable stumblebum smirk...
...truth, when disclosed at the end, seems to belong to a slick thriller rather than to the work of emotional and spiritual impact that Keneally has written. But, as the poet Randall Jarrell said, "a novel is a prose narrative - of some length that has something wrong with...
...BOTTOM LINE: A whistle-slick set of stylish tunes is a reminder that there's still genius beneath the hustle...
Among the proposals discussed at the Re-evaluation Committee meeting was for a Council-associated watchdog group, similar to the recently disappeared "Harvard Watch," to monitor its own business. With all of the slick stuff that goes on in the Canaday B basement, this might not be a bad idea. But wouldn't the Council do better to create a polling arm to gauge student opinion? Another proposal would move the Council in the opposite direction. Alan M. Grumet '94 proposed, in place of several existing Council committees, a Student Affairs Committee that would have an "information/propaganda" office...
This white Canadian ragamuffin's blazing debut album, Twelve Inches of Snow, fuses Jamaican dance hall and American hip-hop into the irresistibly slick mix many other musicians have been aiming for. SNOW'S groove-heavy beats and scatlike raps are burning up the charts from Kingston to New York to Toronto. Darrin O'Brien, who would rather be known by his ghetto moniker, Snow, is an alumnus of Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow...