Word: venomously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perplexing chasm separated the two Tupac Shakurs. As rap's Public Gangsta No. 1, he spumed venom on CD, reeked menace onstage, wore his tattoos like a war hero's medals, did time for violent crimes and, at 25, got gunned down in Las Vegas last September. As a budding film star, though, he pinwheeled charm and emotional purity. Shakur, who had acted professionally since he was 12, wasn't quite Sidney Poitier, but in a decent range of roles (in Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim) he showed power and promise...
...produced the CD, gives all the music gangsta grit--minus much of the usual gangsta venom. Dre contributes one solo performance on the record, the brooding Been There Done That, which takes a swipe at the gangsta genre. "I try out some different things on this album," Dre says. "Yeah. It will surprise some people." --C.J.F...
This glow is only half hidden under her shapeless clothes, half disguised by her boisterous enthusiasm for baseball, half explained by her relationship with an ego-flattening mom (Lauren Bacall, dripping comic venom in award-winning doses). In short, the fine feathers of a star we all know to be a strong, smart and sexy woman keep peeking through her ugly-duckling getup. This spoils whatever suspense this story might hold, and most of its humorous potential too. Unacknowledged vanity is ever the enemy of comedy. And, come to think of it, of romance as well...
...have learned that sooner or later the guy is going to respond to her inner light." This glow is only half hidden under her shapeless clothes, half disguised by her boisterous enthusiasm for baseball, half explained by her relationship with an ego-flattening mom (Lauren Bacall, dripping comic venom in award-winning doses). "In short," notes Schickel, "the fine feathers of a star we all know to be a strong, smart and sexy woman keep peeking through her ugly-duckling getup...
While the venom facing the Maynard family is rare, the conflict that spawned it is not. Federal and state laws require educational help for children with a wide range of physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities. But having passed the bills that mandate this help, Congress and state legislatures across the country have been parsimonious with the money to pay the added costs. This leaves the financial burden on the localities and produces intense conflict between parents and school officials...