Word: rap
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...short on poetry itself. Clinton has a sloganeer's knack for engineering mischievous, provocative lyrics. His songs intersperse sexual double entendres with street-talk to round out an informed polemic. The "message" of SOMBJAF--unlike that of Grandmaster Flash--transcends the ghetto cliches that make rap so egregious. We're talkin' the redefinition of urban sophistication...
...song is aimed at a broad musical spectrum, from rock to rap, and has the kind of forceful beat and dense layering that can pulverize the floor of a dance club at 3 o'clock in the morning. "That's the first level of communication," says Steve Van Zandt, who, as Little Steven, wrote the song and coproduced it with Arthur Baker. "Everybody likes to dance." If everybody can hold still long enough and listen to some lyrics, however, he will get an earful. Sun City is aimed right at the top of the charts, but its sentiments...
...much beer and whoop it up for the thunderous guitar licks and outrageous stage antics. The major social impact of a heavy- metal concert is belching. Nevertheless, pressure groups have seized on the music's theatrical excessiveness, literalized it, then tried to get all of rock to take the rap...
...Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames...
...rap there is. INS officials are among the critics: they estimate that 30% of permanent-residence petitions are fraudulent, with corrupt or incompetent lawyers often to blame. To have much hope of gaining a coveted green card, an immigrant must be related to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, qualified to fill a job for which there is a shortage of applicants in the U.S. or be a refugee facing persecution at home. Each category has bred its schemes and near scams. The easiest and most popular is the sham marriage. "Some are so phony they don't pass...