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...latest album, O.G. Original Gangster, is his best and most balanced. Ice-T's vivid writing and rich delivery detail life on the streets with his trademark realism and humor, but the sometimes tragic consequences of that life are also laid out. On New Jack Hustler, which was nominated for a 1992 Grammy, he sketches the dilemma of a dope dealer...
That's the way it happened for the Class of 1942 as well. When the members of the class celebrate their 50th Reunion this week, one of their most vivid memories will no doubt be the hurricane that very nearly got the best of Harvard...
...hurricane of '38 generated some of the most vivid memories and emphatic responses, Munson says...
Vice President Dan Quayle precipitated it. He and Murphy Brown collaborated in one of those vivid, strange electronic moral pageants, like the Thomas-Hill hearings, that are becoming a new American form. This is national theater: surreal, spontaneous, mixing off-hours pop culture with high political meanings, public behavior with private conscience, making history up with tabloids and television personalities like Oprah Winfrey. The trivial gets aggrandized, the biggest themes cheapened. America degenerates into a TV comedy -- and yet Americans end up thinking in new ways about some larger matters. The little television screen, the bright and flat and often...
...conservation process took four years. No retouching of the original paint was allowed; the purpose was to preserve rather than enhance. Areas where paint and plaster had disappeared were left bare. But many of the murals are remarkably intact, the colors as rich and vivid as if they had been applied yesterday...