Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Guinan is chief of the Urban Health Research Centers at CDC, where she still stresses prevention. "People have to understand that the more sex partners they have, the more they will be at risk," she says. "But they don't want to hear that...
From its first attack in 1982, the group has leaned toward urban terrorism, much of it aimed at the U.S. It hurled a rocket-propelled grenade at the American embassy, lobbed mortars at the U.S. ambassador's residence and bombed several Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Lima. Those acts initially imbued the guerrillas with an aura somewhere between Robin Hood mystique and radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation...
...Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (Columbia). Soulful, seductive and as smooth as lingerie, this charismatic R. and B. theme album follows a single love affair from the eyes-meeting-across-a-crowded-club start all the way to the marriage-proposal endgame. Think Marvin Gaye. Think Smokey Robinson. Think classic soul that recalls the '70s but knows all about...
...Seinfeld (NBC) The granddaddy of modern urban sitcoms is still hipper, still wittier than its offspring. Now in its eighth season, the show has maintained its brilliant comic rhythms and dark undertones, and this season boasts some of the most original episodes ever. Kramer's stash of Japanese businessmen--need we say more...
...break into film. Then there's SPIKE LEE, whose film career has helped him break into advertising. Lee, who has been making commercials on the side since 1988, now has half his own advertising agency, Spike/DDB, a joint venture with DDB Needham. He's going after the urban market, black and white. "I like to tell stories," says the director. "In commercials I have 30 seconds. In music videos I have four minutes, and in movies like Malcolm X I have three hours and 15 minutes." Lee's brain will also be tapped for product ideas. When he talked fondly...