Word: yo
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Crusaders constantly emphasize that there is no justice in the United States, that our country is declining. They ask for recrimination and retribution. We have created a subculture of guilty white liberals who watch "Yo! MTV Raps" and believe they understand the ghetto. Most people are really only capable of understanding, whether they want to or not, "Beverly Hills 90210." The result is a highly educated, tolerant and ultimately uninvolved caste of people who sympathize for the "less socially mobile...
Space-shuttle duty is tough. On next month's mission, one astronaut will practice Rock the Cradle, Skin the Cat and Around the World in zero gravity. nasa hopes that a videotape of stunts with the SB-2 -- a $75 high-tech yo-yo -- will interest kids in space. If that's the point, maybe the space agency should show the astronauts watching television...
...graph of the Harvard School of Education's well-being over the past two years would rise and fall like a yo-yo...
...faces are standard currency on MTV, where these spots appear. And the beat is right. But what gives with all the flag waving? Well, yo, young America. These unconventional calls to patriotic duty are part of a broadly orchestrated campaign by celebrities, cable channels and record companies to get youths involved in the electoral process. "The idea," says Jody Uttal, co-founder of the voter-registration group Rock the Vote, which produced the Ice-T and Madonna videos, "is to raise the political consciousness of kids and to make voting...
...CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes, birdlike...