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...poetry itself. Clinton has a sloganeer's knack for engineering mischievous, provocative lyrics. His songs intersperse sexual double entendres with street-talk to round out an informed polemic. The "message" of SOMBJAF--unlike that of Grandmaster Flash--transcends the ghetto cliches that make rap so egregious. We're talkin' the redefinition of urban sophistication...
Elvy did the normal things a teenager is expected to do. He had fun and played a bit with modems. Langerman was even less of the quintessential teenager. Four or five years before he came to Harvard, he ran what he terms two "small--we're talkin' real small" consulting companies which had him writing mailing programs for which he charged a little over a hundred dollars, but which ended up taking a couple of hundred hours. "I learned the hard way," he said. When his parents offered him the usual car or computer, he took the computer...
When the only patron with politically lib eral sympathies begins to orate, the bar tender-proprietor warns: "You start talkin' about niggers and America in here tonight, I swear you won't get another drink till winter. You understand?" Such moments surpass the contrivances of plot; surprise fades in the glare of recognition...
...moves slowly up three flights of broken stairs. There is the stench of urine. Flickering candles light the way. The guards order the buyers to face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives, tens and 20s. No talkin' or we'll bust your honky heads." Finally the Captain is at the head of the line facing a battered red steel door. He puts $150 on a piece of cardboard protruding from under the door. It disappears. "What...
...MANSFIELD, HARVEY and Wilson, James Q., A restful and right-wing vacation for two. And end to slim pickins' for Frankie McLaughlin, Says here, he'll soon have the whole Ivies talkin'. It's Pat Ewing's opponents that'll need Christmas gifts, Enough for Bob Klitgaard, if he can heal all rifts. A solar-powered Yuletide for our bookworm Paul Tsongas Ted Kennedy gets a win margin humongous. For S. Allen Counter a foundation most firm, But for Israel's Begin an end to his term; An heir or an heiress will greet Charles and Di; We know Larry...