Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some cable companies, like Media One, are rushing to upgrade their network backbones to support fast Internet connections in the name of convergence, but it will take decades to bring even urban areas up to speed. And early sales of "cable modems" have been worse than poor...
...available. Suddenly, we must accept that our whining, petulant Material Girl has evolved once more. Call the new Madonna "Ethereal Girl." Yes, all the rumors are more than true. Her new album, Ray of Light, pulls off the seemingly impossible. Madonna--our symbol of superficiality, our icon of cheesy urban culture--has gone spiritual...
...Mission Hill, such individual attention does not come often to most students. According to MHASP co-director Michael S. Boyce '99, the low-income housing area was recently recognized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as "one of the six worst projects in the nation." Boyce also notes that although the area, which draws its population largely from the African American, Puerto Rican and Dominican minority communities, underwent large-scale drug sweeps five years ago, at the time some residents alleged that sweep arrests were racially motivated...
...known as classic soul, the black soul music of the '60s and '70s is back! Over the past few years, I have gradually stopped purchasing black popular music, urban contemporary, rap or whatever these genres are called. (There are few accurate ways to describe what has simply become uninteresting and unappealing...
Boarded-up store fronts, closed banks,five-and-dime shops and weather-beaten barsdominate the urban landscape...