Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University Hall, has been arrested in Mexico City for alleged revolutionary activities. Mexican police charge that he is a member of the Movimiento de Accion Revolucionario, a group allegedly responsible for a series of bank robberies. Later allegations link him to the Comando Armando del Peuble, a Marxist urban guerilla group. Authorities do not level a specific charge. Under Mexican law, Hyland may be held in prison for as long as a year before charges are brought...
Mack says driving the cab was reminiscent of an urban Outward Bound program...
Though primarily identified with NBC's hip urban comedies, Tarses rejects the implication that she's a one-trick pony. "We're always going to try to do shows that skew younger and more urban, because that's the desirable audience. But I think the biggest mistake you can make is to be derivative. At NBC we put the best shows on the schedule. One year it was Seinfeld, the next year it was Mad About You, the next year Frasier, the next year Friends. You put them together, and all of a sudden look what we have--sophisticated urban...
There is a secret at the heart of all John Fogerty's songs, an unbroken connection to the magic and mystery in the American musical past that conjoins Delta blues and garage bands, urban riffs and pedal steel, folklore and the Brill Building. You can find its point of fine convergence in the fierceness of Fogerty's singing, the grace of his imagination, the implacable drive of his spirit. He can do what only the greatest American songwriters can: make music that sounds, even when you first hear it, as if you've known it forever. Music that's more...
...Mexican cool shivers with the frisson of government conspiracy. On July 17, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will open in Santa Fe--the first museum dedicated to the artist, whose paintings of flowers and bleached skulls have become as emblematic of New Mexico as Edward Hopper's urban loners are of New York City. Also in Santa Fe, from June 3 through Aug. 16, is Santa Fe Stages: the International Theater Festival, for which the city will be host to everything from Canadian avant-gardists (a brochure warns of "brief nudity") to a women-in-drag version of Sherlock Holmes...