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While Columbia’s band seems to revel in its bad-boy image, the Harvard University Band—which historically has shared the Ivy League penchant for off-color gibes at opposing teams—is quietly moving toward a less controversial program...
Nazi-inspired motorcycle helmets have been around since, well, the Nazis. But now they are becoming the headgear of choice for a growing corps of professionals who want that bad-boy biker image. Jim Peacock, president of Butthead Novelties, sells about 500 German-style helmets a month--up 20% from a year ago--at $50 each to customers in "the in-crowd kind of states, like California." John Daniele, owner of the online retailer Helmets R Us helmetsrus.com) says it's not a Hell's Angels thing. "I'm selling them mostly to professional, business-oriented people," he says...
...public. More often than not they portrayed him as a rebellious figure eventually tamed by his love for a beautiful girl. Elvis was becoming little more than a syrupy teen idol. It was as if Sid Vicious had become David Cassidy. The record and film industries shamelessly exploited his bad-boy image and Elvis passively held on for the ride...
...Kong. Artist Eric So's career took off when he released a collection of retro-dressed Bruce Lee figures in 1997. So, 33, a friend of Lau, describes his recent Sprite-commissioned dolls and Vespa-riding Sam Lee figures as "playable artworks." Radio presenter Martin Lam, 26, creates hunched bad-boy dolls as promotional items for streetwear shops such as Tokyo's Double Taps. "They are all animated versions of me, my other personas," Lam says...
...with a significant gift. Like Elvis and Sinatra, Brooks isn't just a singer but an interpreter. He has an uncanny vocal ability to make his material convincing, from the weary amazement of Why Ain't I Running to the matter-of-fact Wrapped Up in You to the bad-boy exuberance of Beer Run. The problem is he never stops selling. He invests as much in trifles like The Storm ("She's drowning in emotions, and she cannot reach the shore") as he does in Pushing Up Daisies, a tune about his mother's death. Either he's blind...