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Word: urbanely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nigerian economy's addiction to petroleum has led to a series of unfortunate compromises in the not-too-distant past, including environmental degradation, rampant human rights abuses and urban degeneration. These are not problems unique to Nigeria, but the world is watching how Nigeria handles a renewed voucher for democracy...

Author: By Dele Ogunseitan, | Title: Na Democracy Man Go Chop? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...Centered in this movie-world is Frank Pierce. Set in the early '90s, the film covers three nights in Manhattan in its heyday of urban despair. The whole world's an ambulance, it seems, and all the people in it merely victims. This movie pulls, emotionally as well as aesthetically. Sounds and colors of the sirens and streetlights are stretched out to a wail and a blur, and anguish tugs on every line of Cage's face. Many key scenes are cramped into the driver's seat and bloody siren lights stain the medics' faces. This gristly and sometimes hallucinatory...

Author: By Angela M. Hur, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Quite Dead Yet : Trading ambulances for taxis and Cage for DeNiro, Scorsese returns to form. | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...Provided the privacy thing is not an issue, there are several how-to books and Web sites that transform masturbation into an awe inspiring art. Generation X shops like Urban Outfitters and Newberry Comics tend to have their fair share of sex guides and how-to books. Sites like www.skinful.com and www.mmadness.com are also a good place to start...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Birkett requires a lot of his 30 teachers, but he says he also puts a lot into selecting them, trying to select candidates who are experienced in an urban setting and excel at classroom management...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Charter Against Bureaucracy | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...combines remixes, sound collages and general mayhem in a sonic soup that is equal parts John Cage, Sun Ra, Grandmaster Flash, and Aphrodite. DJ Spooky, a. k. a. That Subliminal Kid, a. k. a. Paul D. Miller, is a founder of the New York illbient sound, which blends the urban, rhythmic edge of hip-hop, dub and jungle with the abstract, ambient noise techniques of French musique concrte. And Subliminal Minded is chock-full of the sound. DJ Wally, the Dub Pistols, Karsh Kale and DJ Spooky himself reconstruct four songs from Riddim Warfare, ranging from the delicious spy-movie...

Author: By Jeremy Salfen, | Title: Album Review: DJ Spooky | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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