Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also said some people criticized thevideo for being "too urban" and not focusing oncitizens on farms and in suburbs...
...something different now from what it once was, what was it? By most accounts, it first emerged among urban blacks, for whom it could be both a defense against a hostile world and the sum of the special insights of life under pressure. Ginsberg, who with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs forms part of the Holy Trinity of Beat literature, recalls that the term hip migrated into mainstream speech from the drug culture and the jazz world it intersected. "There it meant tolerant. It was a word used among junkies. It implied a knowingness and understanding...
...weekend to clear the backlog of mail. Just two years ago, Postmaster General Marvin Runyon promised to turn the district's postal service into a "showpiece" of modern technology and efficiency. Yet, in a recent survey by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse, Washington ranked dead last among urban areas for on-time mail delivery. Several members of Congress -- angry because some of the delayed letters in Washington could be from constituents trying to contact them -- charge that the mail holdups could be illegal and plan to investigate the postal system. The House subcommittee on postal operations has summoned Runyon...
...namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...
...woman who had an affair with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros filed a lawsuit against him, claiming he stopped paying her an agreed-to $4,000 a month. Cisneros has admitted that he and Linda Medlar had a two-year affair when he was mayor of San Antonio in the late 1980s. She says she wants payments until her 16-year-old daughter graduates from college...