Word: laing
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...Rakim took the art of rhyming to a new level of profundity, their trickster lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating the frenetic Miami drum-and-bass sound...
...your article "Flying Solo," on women who are choosing to stay single [SOCIETY, Aug. 28]. Call me selfish, but I enjoy traveling, buying nice things and going out wherever and whenever I want. When the time is right, I will settle down. But for now, it's great "livin' la vida loca"! KRISTA PALOMBA Watertown, Conn...
...move through the pages of "The Golden Age." He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house in Ravello perched 200 feet above the Amalfi coast. His mornings are customarily spent writing in a room filled with leatherbound copies of all his books and framed magazine covers bearing his face...
...La Gloria Cubana cigars...
FULLY DOT-COMMITTED Getting a reservation at a ritzy restaurant used to be a time-honored test of one's social clout. Not anymore. A new service called DinnerBroker.com is selling dinner reservations over the Internet. Need a primo table tonight at San Francisco's swank La Folie restaurant? It's yours for 20 bucks. The better the table time and the fancier the venue, the more you pay. The service is up and running in the Bay Area and is set to launch soon in Los Angeles, New York and 25 other cities. God help...