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...obliterate the White House, how exciting is it, really, to see some alternative rocker smash his guitar? If you've seen Tom Cruise hurled from an exploding helicopter onto a moving train, is it really that thrilling to see a bassist jump from the top of a three-foot amp? If you've just seen a twister tear apart a town, doesn't a mere mosh pit lose some of its anarchic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: WHERE THE MOSHERS ARE | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...uncharacteristically silly refrain that "Your love/Is better than ice cream," and the insertion of a "lollipop" popping noise is perfect for the song's mood. With a sound that befits Hole's Courtney Love more than McLachlan, "Ice" is her unsuccessful attempt to work an electric guitar with high amp into her music. The bass of McLachlan's confidante Pierre Marchand is present, to good effect, but McLachlan's electric guitar proves distracting and overpowers Sarah at points...

Author: By Diane E. Levitan, | Title: A Familiar Freedom | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

Football, Varsity, Freshmen Team Captain; Crimson Outreach, Junior High School Lecturer; Muscular Dystrophy Association Summer amp, Research Assistant in Economics Campus Production of Woody Allan's "God", Cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1995 CANDIDATES FOR HARVARD & RADCLIFE CLASS MARSHALS | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

INMATES AT THE MILWAUKEE COUNTY House of Correction still talk about Big Amp, a legend who bench-pressed 460 lbs. last June, setting a new prison record. Big Amp is back on the streets, but he has lots of wannabes back at the prison's large gym, which is equipped with dozens of assorted free weights and two Universal machines. Among his admirers: Jarmaine Maggit, 23, who is serving 14 months for battery. When Maggit arrived last May, he could bench only 135 lbs. Now he's up to 325 lbs., earning a spot on a wall chart listing members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building A Better Thug? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...AMP teaches its participants, who usually have 25 years of business experience, to view their companies' organization as a unit and to relate that organization to other financial forces in the economy, in addition to training them in planning and leadership skills, according to Vatter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Trains Flynn Aide | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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