Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kids on the Block were still teenagers when their 1986 debut album, New Kids on the Block, changed the face of prepubescent pop by putting a teen- idol spin on a black urban beat. Eight years and 60 million albums, singles and videotapes later, the group -- Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood and Joe McIntyre -- are no longer new and no longer kids. Now in their mid-20s, they have, in show-biz terms at least, reached that other awkward age, groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them...
...live on a block made unlivable by crime. "For those who are worried about the constitutionality of the curfew, I'll gladly hire some buses and transfer the kids who are on our streets after 11 p.m. to their neighborhoods," says T. Willard Fair, president of Miami's Urban League...
...Everyman" story of a straight, white,white-collar, urban man doesn't appeal to a largeenough audience and a diverse enough sensibilityfor the '90s. In their program, the Nora assertsthat '...have sought out plays that jostle ourhearts and minds and have attempted to producethem in ways that reveal our common humanity." Butthe "common humanity" is not adequatedlyrepresented in the "Everyman" characterized byWilly Loman. At most, then, this well-doneproduction of a bland play can only remind us,true to its intention, that the theatrical spacesometimes is meant for bland characters and blandstories. Despite the well-intentioned attempts ofthe theatrical setting...
...Angeles County, there were 55 racial fights last year; early this month 80 were wounded in a brawl among 600 prisoners wielding sticks and knives, which led to the segregation of black and Latino inmates. Residents of rural Northern California are so sick of paying for Southern California's urban nightmares that they loudly proclaim proposals for dividing the state into two or three...
Yearwood's supporters, on the other hand, decried what they viewed as a violation of his free-speech rights, portraying him as a victim of gender politics and socioeconomic prejudices. "We are from two different worlds," says Yearwood of Clinansmith. "People from my background, from an urban setting, understood...