Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they cook hamburgers (well, actually, they're ratburgers), swill beer and dream of cholesterol's restoration. To deal with the outlaws, Cocteau frees a killer named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) from cryogenic prison (they took to deep-freezing criminals as early as 1996, during the last convulsive phase of urban warfare). To deal with him, his wimpy cops, not knowing Phoenix is in league with their boss, warm up his old nemesis John Spartan (Stallone), who's been doing chilly time for overly enthusiastic police work in the bad old days...
...first disco hits to break Billboard's Top 40, "Macho Man" was the first hit in the Village People's distinguished career. Although "Y.M.C.A." is better known, "Macho Man," released in 1978, is more noteworthy because it establishes the roots of the '70s urban cowboy trend...
SPAH was born during the week before Freshman Week, when the founders were all living in Quincy House, participating in either the First-Year Urban Program or Radcliffe Science Alliance...
...make a Harvard version of the shirt for people who felt as they did. They agreed that profits from the t-shirt sales would go to charity. Park said part of the money is going to Fair Foods, a food bank where he worked during the First-Year Urban Program...
...random urban terrorism and calculated antigovernment attacks by such radical organizations as Jihad and the Islamic Group in Egypt, the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria and An-Nahda (Renaissance) in Tunisia are predominantly home grown. But the target governments, which have responded with repression, tend to charge that the violent onslaughts against them are inspired by Islamic centers abroad, engaged in a conspiracy of subversion. They most often cite Afghanistan, Iran and Sudan as the instigators and paymasters, and claim that the cadres in their local terrorist organizations can all be traced back to Afghanistan, where the 14-year...