CMJ (7/12/99, p. 26) - "...solid fusion of RZA-esque string play and thumping jeep beats provide an equally formidable backdrop for the Genius's ever-heady lyrical chessboxing....Surface is a family affair with impressive guest spots....Behold the first true Wu-Banger of 1999."
•
Alternative Press (10/99, p. 92) - 5 out of 5 - "...the first clear indication...of where the most important act of the hip-hop decade want to take their legions of followers....RZA's a master of structure and strategy..."
surface-to-air missile | Surface-to-air missile | Wind Beneath My Wings | Surface | Riemann surface | Beneath Clouds | What Lies Beneath | Surface (TV series) | surface | Fermi surface | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Beneath the Blue | The Skull Beneath the Skin | Surface-mount technology | Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division | Naval Surface Warfare Center | Microsoft Surface | Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens | Beneath the Remains | Type 91 Surface-to-air missile | Surface weather observation | Surface wave magnitude | Surface Water Ocean Topography Mission | Surface Warfare insignia | Surface texture | surface area | Shioda modular surface | Road surface | Mars surface color | Kummer surface |
In 1998, he released his first album with The Visionaries as well as the first Of Mexican Descent album, and he was featured on the OD (Omid) compilation album Beneath the Surface.
This experiment revealed structures beneath the surface in Mare Crisium, Mare Serenitatis, Oceanus Procellarum, and many other areas.
Montreal World Film Festival - Grand Prix des Amériques for Beneath the Surface (nomination)
Vogel further cites Gerard as dismissing Schoolcraft's opinion that the name was from negikanamazoo, or "otters beneath the surface" as an "etymological absurdity".
Remembering the success of Ngô Quyền who, half a century earlier, had defeated the Chinese navy as it attempted to invade Đại Việt by way of the Bạch Đằng River, he copied Quyen's strategy of booby-trapping the river with long sharpened stakes that were out of sight beneath the surface of the water at high tide.
Northeast of Donaldsonville, Louisiana, a borrow pit excavated for fill used to maintain nearby artificial levees, exposed three levels of rooted upright tree trunks stacked on top of each other lying completely buried beneath the surface of Point Houmas, a patch of floodplain lying within a meander loop of the current course of the Mississippi River.
Omid - "Who's Keeping Time?" from Beneath the Surface (1998)
Omid - "When the Sun Took a Day Off and the Moon Stood Still" from Beneath the Surface (1998)
Brian Cox's BBC series Wonders of the Solar System saw a scientist examining snottites in the caves and positing that if there is life on Mars, it may be similarly primitive and hidden beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
Harvie cites a comparable passage from the second volume of The Golden Bough, where Frazer speaks of "a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society," which, "unaffected by the superficial changes of religion and culture," is "a standing menace to civilisation. We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any time be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering beneath."