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Although Paris is still slave to what French rapper MC Solaar calls "the cult of the sneaker," other rap accoutrements like gold jewelry are giving way to a more Afrocentric accent, notably batik fabrics and African coats of arms of the sort worn in America by Queen Latifah. The burgeoning dictionary of Franglais, moreover, includes not only le rap but a distinctively Gallic version of the standard salutation, "What's up?" Szup? is what American ears & hear, though in Paris it sounds more like an appetizer course: "Soup?" The genre has spawned one break-out hit, Auteuil Neuilly Passy...
...Black accused her boyfriend of spending their last $15 on crack. She stormed out of their one-room apartment in Freeport, L.I., late one night last week to try to borrow some food stamps. Daren Jenkins, 23, an unemployed cabinetmaker, stalked over to the bed where Black's son Batik was sleeping. High on crack, an extremely potent and addictive form of cocaine, Jenkins allegedly beat the little boy to death. Batik would have been three years old this month...
According to the Ribbon Project newsletter, "Participants may applique, batik, embroider, hook, needlepoint, paint, quilt, silk-screen, tie-die, weave, reproduce photographs, use iron-on fabric paints...to tell this nation that we love the earth and its people...
...high school students will be able to pick and choose from among 31 different English courses, 20 courses in mathematics, 27 different foreign and ancient language offerings, and a delicatessen of diverting electives ranging - from interior design, film and the principles of collage and batik to something called "Advanced Foods...
...heads from torsos. Even when his daughter became engaged, Ditchley couldn't escape from the lawyers; she called one in to help her write a marriage contract; so naturally her fiance got one too. Finally, Ditchley's wife decided to start a career; $50,000 and two bankrupt batik boutiques later, she got into a law school. Now, whenever he tries to strike up a conversation with her, she mutters things like "Deponent sayeth not. " But Ditchley is sending Junior to law school too, damn the expense. A good father, he figures, does not send his son into the world...