Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father from Barbados; she spent her formative teenage years in Barbados listening to calypso and reggae, both of which can be heard gently rocking her songs today. Tricky, son of a Jamaican mother and a "half-white, half-African" father, comes from the British city of Bristol, a multiethnic urban center that inspired him to make "mutant music for a mutant age." His stylistically eclectic CD Maxinquaye is driven by churning, yearning hip-hop rhythms accentuated by grungy guitar riffs. On the track Pumpkin, Tricky recycles guitar licks from the alternative-rock band Smashing Pumpkins and inserts them into...
...disparate sentences were Congress's hasty answer to the drug panic that swept America in 1986, following the rapid spread of crack sales through major urban areas. Ironically, it was the cocaine death that summer of Len Bias, a promising basketball player who had recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee...
Though advertisers haven't banded together yet, some citizen groups are trying it. Dennis Walcott, president of the New York Urban League, organized a protest last week at radio station wqht in New York to persuade the station to stop playing Shimmy Shimmy Ya, a rap song that the protesters say encourages sex without condoms. "I'm not asking for censorship,'' says Walcott. "I'm asking for corporations who make money from these things to think about content and message...
...grim year for science andtechnology," says Rusty Matthews, the Democraticstaff person for the Veterans' Affairs, Housingand Urban Development and Independent AgenciesSubcommittee of the Senate AppropriationsCommittee, the committee which decides science andtechnology funding...
Mikulski is the ranking minority member of theVeterans' Affairs, Housing and Urban Developmentand Indepednent Agencies Subcommittee of theSenate Appropriations Committee...