Word: babe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DiFranco Dilate (Righteous Babe Records). Tart, topical songs from this 25-year-old genre-bending singer-guitarist, who blends folk, punk, trip-hop and whatever else strikes her fancy into insurgent and often arrestingly beautiful music. DiFranco hitches these tunes to scathing lyrical and deeply personal takes on romance and gender issues, then releases her records through her own record company...
...NISSAN "TOYS" Car ads were not generally driven by trenchant wit this year, but Nissan's spot amounted to topnotch satire of one of auto advertising's perennial themes: the right wheels always win you the babe. To the beat of Van Halen's You Really Got Me, a G.I. Joe look-alike leaves one playroom, hits the road for another in a sporty coupe and picks up a silver-lamed faux Barbie from her plastic manse. The crestfallen loser? A dull, preppie sort. The message? Drive Nissan...
...print ads whimsically position the camera as not just a quick processor but also a great shatterer of delusion. In one of the ads, two parents speculate about their daughter's new college boyfriend. Surely, he must be respectable. The Polaroid-provided reality? He looks like a bassist for Babe the Blue...
...When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch. Fortunately for the ballplayer, a team of oxen belonging to young Willard's dad was on hand to pull his car out of trouble. Hall, a sportswriter whose day job is penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then...
When you think of people who have really revolutionized their sports, certain names come up. Babe Ruth, Wilt Chamberlain, Muhammed Ali, Jackie Robinson, Arnold Palmer, Bob by Orr.... The list goes on, and other people would certainly throw in other names, but that is not important...