Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom he's still obsessed, and his mother, whose death a year earlier he still hasn't come to terms with. Greif's production has a sleek, metallic-fluorescent look (with a catwalk above the stage for the band and occasional actors) that transforms smoothly from disco floor to subway train to magazine office...
...mind that ploy and the nonstop obscenities faithfully transcribed in the name of realism, Street Kingdom can be a dramatic subway safari. Shuttling between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Century is an enthusiastic guide to polyglot and polychrome New York City. When outlaw and author first met nearly seven years ago at a lower Manhattan nightclub, K was trying to make it as a hip-hop lyricist and performer. He had the look (270 lbs. of muscular intimidation draped in clothing loose enough to conceal an arsenal) and a showman's instincts. In the book his stage name is American Dread, suggesting...
...detail--had been put together by a French newspaper, Le Figaro. I could have added that hard on the heels of the Times story I saw a Reuters item about Metro officials having spent five years developing a new fragrance designed to dress up the aroma of Paris subway stations...
...parents made a point of showing me newspaper profiles about Wall Street executives who had majored in such esoteric fields as classics or Sanskrit. For all I knew, the financial world might be crawling with closeted philosophy types, sneaking in a few illicit hours with Kierkegaard before taking the subway to work...
...cents] for girls and 50[cents] for boys, and it went till 4 a.m. Pretty soon Clive was getting requests to do more parties, and in 1973 he gave his first block party. He was Kool Herc now--that was the graffito tag he used to write on subway cars--and he got respect. At 18 he was the first break-beat deejay, reciting rhymes over the "break," or instrumental, part of the records he was spinning. He had two turntables going and two copies of each record, so he could play the break over and over, on one turntable...