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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which first put a sled into a starting chute only four months ago. In Calgary the Jamaicans may well win the gold medal for marketing chutzpah. Their T shirts sell for $15, their sweat shirts for $28. There is even a recorded reggae theme song for sale, Hobbin & A Bobbin. But team members bristle when anyone questions their commitment. Says Driver Dudley Stokes, a captain in the Jamaica Defense Forces: "There are no jokers on this team." There is a sprint champion and a reggae singer, though. Stokes flies helicopters but says, "In a helicopter, if something goes wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Jests of the Rest | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

THREE YEARS LATER with two and half albums under their collective belt, the B-52's are still-a-garbage collecting band scrounging for bits and pieces from assorted rock genres and recycling out a unique sound, in which the only constants is a bobbin beat "Rock Lobster" was only the beginning of a string of songs merging punk, funk, new-wave. Southern boogie, and anything else capable of stirring quiescent feet to motion. Keeping the party going was all this self-proclaimed "tacky little dance band" from Athens. Georgia wanted. And evidently, that's all their fans wanted...

Author: By Michael J. Abrameichz, | Title: Bombs Away | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

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