Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HILLARY CLINTON Fickle N.Y. has change of heart; she dives in new poll. There's never an intern around when you need...
Though George built a circulation (lately around 400,000) much larger than that of more staid political journals, the magazine was losing money, and Kennedy had been negotiating George's fate with Hachette. Just last week an industry newsletter reported that the magazine's owners were ready to shut it down. Kennedy told staff last week that he was negotiating with other potential publishers. But if George's future looks doubtful without Kennedy, it will at least be an important artifact for having bridged the worlds of politics and celebrity--worlds that John F. Kennedy Jr. knew from both sides...
...music there's an important difference between experimentation and invention: the former implies the willingness to challenge convention; the latter also suggests the ability to create interesting new sounds. This Mexican group is one of the most praised Spanish-language rock bands around, but unfortunately its new double CD is perhaps more experimental than inventive. The first part features instrumentals that draw on Latin pop and European classical traditions; the second features vocals influenced by art-rock, bolero and other genres. More than a few songs on this provocative collection have the power to enchant, yet this band surely...
...Chili Peppers closed the concert with a cover version of Jimi Hendrix?s "Fire," hundreds of concertgoers used candles distributed by an anti-gun-violence group to torch a number of vendors? trucks and set fires on and around the stage. Soon the hooligans in the crowd were looting concession stands and portable ATMs, and trashing speakers and other equipment in what some witnesses described as a reaction to the inflated prices the crowd had endured over three days of peaceful partying. In an action unthinkable back in ?69, organizers then called in the police to secure the area...
Indonesia may have trouble persuading anyone to bother voting next time around. The country supposedly ended 34 years of dictatorship by going to the polls in early June to elect a new president. But the results were only announced last week, more than a month late ? and then, on Monday, the process was thrown into turmoil when the country?s Electoral Commission, two thirds of which must endorse the result to make it stand, nixed the poll. Although the five major parties all gave the thumbs-up, a plethora of smaller parties represented on the commission cried fraud...