Word: yo
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...dark. Companies that couldn't think of anything original this year are reinventing old favorites. Microsoft's line of ActiMates Interactive Teletubbies ($60) speak and sing, and come with touch-sensitive color screens on the tummies, which display geometric shapes. Most perplexing is Tiger Electronics' new electronic yo-yo, the E-Yo ($15), which gives a digital readout of its average speed, distance traveled and total time in use. If this seems of little use to you, remember that E-Yo comes from the same marketing whizzes who brought us Furby last year...
Does Varsity Blues have anything that sets it apart from the others like Rudy? Well, there's a beefed-up brunette Dawson sporting a manly "I doant wo-ant yo-r life" Texas drawl. Then, there's the new Adonis-on-the-block, a certain blond, blue-eyed, chiseledjawed Paul Walker, a.k.a. Lance Harbor, the star quarterback of the West Canaan High School Coyotes. Unfortunately, two pretty faces are not enough to save this sinking ship...
...Atlanta in the '90s for his best-selling book A Man in Full. In several sections of his novel, Wolfe offers his own sly parodies of today's rap styles: "How'm I spose a love her/ Catch her mackin' with the brothers," Wolfe writes in a passage. "Ram yo' booty! Ram yo' booty!" Most of the characters in A Man in Full are a bit frightened by rap's passion. It's Wolfe's view that "hip-hop music quite intentionally excludes people who are not in that world." That world, however, is growing...
OCTOBER 1999 Former Monica attorney William Ginsburg, already mad because Monica is refusing to pay him for his legal services, sues Monica over her description of him in her book as "the worst lawyer in America" and a "bow-tied yo-yo...
Where current council president Beth A. Stewart '00 brought us fly-by lunches and fro-yo to Annenberg, students look forward to seeing Seton expand the council's purview to more important student services. At the same time, students clearly sought to temper Seton's focus on student services with Redmond's progressive bent...