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...fliers consisted of four pictures of the dancers, termed "the dopest, freshest, jivin' homeboy boogaloo breakin' cats around." The fliers also invited students to attend their demonstration at Loker Commons...

Author: By Karen M. Paik, | Title: Coitus Interruptus Strikes Hundreds | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

...mean, caffeine is a drug, right? But it's not as if you're getting someone drunk, you're just getting them wired and shaky. Norma, isn't "do you want to go out for coffee sometime" just an artsy, sophisticated way of saying, "I want you?" Not Jivin' to Java in Leverett Dear Jivin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma, I'm afraid to install it | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

WORKING SPACE stands as a valiant attempt by Stella to drag abstract painting back on the road of progress. But it's just one more intellectual breakdance in a field overrun by rhetorical jivin' and poppin'. After all, abstract painting is a mental art. Since abstraction is the mental process of selection and exaggeration, abstract art requires the intellectual equivalent of a Captain Video decoder ring to translate a picture into ordinary concepts...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Inter-Stella Space | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Psyche. Not jivin', but that may be hard to realize till we chase Freud out of the door, and Grier and Cobbs too unless they succeed in their efforts to free their psychological orientation from models of psychopathology, and come full-circle to re-definitions in conjunct with black culture. Nations consist of individuals, and for the time being, most individuals are shaped by the cauldron, or cesspool, or nest of their families, or the absence of family. No more visible chains on the body, the ultimate battleground is for the chains of definitions and fantasy that hang...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: Tryin' To Make It Real | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

Swing Classics (Lionel Hampton and his jazz groups; RCA Victor). A collection of some of the hallelujah blasts-Whoa Babe, Central Avenue Breakdown, Jivin' with Jarvis-that made Hampton tall on the bandstand back in the late '30s, when most of these tracks were recorded. The assorted personnel-Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie. Coleman Hawkins, Jess Stacy-are first-rate, and the unremitting frenzy of their attack is a fine antidote to the cool moods of modern chamber jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Jazz Records | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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