Films such as Wild Style, Style Wars, Beat Street, and Breakin', propelling the elements, and compelling outsiders with no understanding of the culture to explore this "new" phenomena. ... When Wild Style came around, only five or six members from Rock Steady would get to represent. ... Shortly thereafter, Wiggles, Fabel, and Freeze started their own crew called Electric Company. ... Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... I remember buying an album called, Electric Breakin', that came with a pullout that taught you ...

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If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you share with most Americans an appreciation for (if not a fascination with) celebrities. ... We strive to find affordable replicas of the ridiculously priced designer clothing celebrities flaunt, and drool over the mansions they call home when they're not on exotic vacations or at movie premieres. ... And the nightly TV lineup is chock-full of "News Updates, " "Special Reports, " and "Inside Exclusives " about the wild antics or good deeds, tragic downfalls or rising popularity, ongoing crackups or latest "recovery ", and newest lov...

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I don't want to ruin the end of the movie but I will say that he goes a little wild on cocaine and has some unwanted visitors enter his property. ... There is evidence of Jewish and Cuban people committing the same crimes as the so-called mafia before Italians and Sicilians immigrated to America. ... By declaring more money than the business actually made and combining the illegal money with the valid money made by the company, they can spend it without fearing the Internal Revenue Service is going to ask questions as to where the money came from. This process is called money launderin...

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Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected th...

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The "English came to regard Irishmen as "savages" wild, untamable men" because they had deeply struggled to dominate Ireland. ... Only a selected few wrote these stories, yet they were accepted by the vast majority because they did not question those scholars or men of intellect who wrote them. ... Edward Said, a professor from Columbia University, felt that European perceptions of Middle East had not changed for many years; they were portrayed as erotic, mysterious, and full of marvels, he called this Orientalism. ...

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After the chaos of the boxer rebellion Hay called for an expanded "Open Door Policy," for all parts of China. ... Propaganda was spreading like wild fire through America; the people were fired up and were in the mood for war. ... If every country washed by the Carribean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt Amendment, Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all questions of interference by this nation with their affairs would be at an end. ...

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A cultivated plant, also known as a cultigen, a cultivated plant (as Indian corn) of a variety or species for which a wild ancestor is unknown or uncertain. ... Fast forward centuries later, this plant is now called Aloe Vera. ...

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