Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidency itself is not the American immigrant's final frontier. It is simply the right to seek that office and then, possibly, to fail in that attempt, which stands out as the holy grail in the immigrant's quest for equal status. Until the time when that right is granted, the antiquarian presidential qualification will continue to gnaw and prod at the effort to end immigrants' second-class-citizen status...
Mindful of our public image, most of our elders in the black community would rather see us repudiate rap than redefine it. But groups from the Fugees to the Roots to A Tribe Called Quest continue to blend phat beats, dope rhymes and intelligent ideas into high-powered rap, regardless of marketing data that say gangsta rap sells best. Who's pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown...
...failures only juice him. An inveterate inventor whose house in the foothills of San Carlos, California, is filled with homemade toys such as the Jaminator--a plastic guitar that permits users to jam, in key, with rock tunes etched into silicon chips--Capps thrives on the multi-iterated quest for perfection. "There's nothing better than doing version 2," he says, "and being able to go back and fix all your mistakes." No, what finally drove Capps out the door was Apple's inability to stay relevant, to reorient itself around the Net. "If Bill Gates could...
Thus began Kahn-Leavitt's five-year quest to bring Martha's life to film. Her vision was "to show a real person with this massive cryptic diary...
...film Star Wars is not about video games and woozy echoes of love [CINEMA, Feb. 10]. It is a study of archetypes and an expression of the unconscious collective experience of humankind. Star Wars has it all: hero, villain, magic weapon, quest and heroine. We have been rewriting this story throughout time; only the names have been changed to modernize it. Shakespeare would have loved it. LISA BYRD Malvern, Arizona...