Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme, Lemon demurred, but a chance meeting with Le Vaughn Robinson, a street-corner tap dancer, changed his mind. The result of their collaboration was Buck Dance, based on the syncopated clog dancing (the precursor of tap) that slaves performed to entertain their masters...
...Here I am, this intellectual choreographer, not even dealing with race at all," says Lemon, "and there's buck dancing, which is my history as an African American. Part of us wants to be black and rooted in a black tradition. Another part of us wants to be free. It all creates a wonderful tension for the work...
...brisk, not too smarmy recap of the day's entertainment news, the E! cable channel's little noticed E! News Daily gives the most bang for the buck. The show last Tuesday, for example, covered everything important that its rivals did (the death of songwriter Jule Styne, Katie Couric's interview with O.J. Simpson's grown children). But it had several other newsy tidbits too, from Elizabeth Montgomery's suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows...
...quartet -- Stipe, Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry -- met in Athens in the late '70s. It was not altogether friendship at first sight. "We were definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe...
...used to infuriate me that we'd be this really good American band that had several records out and we couldn't buy airplay on radio or MTV, and all these English bands would put out mediocre records and they'd sell a million copies," recalls Buck. "But we won. We outlasted them. None of those bands is around, none of them does any good work. They're all working in whatever the '90s equivalent to a gas station is -- a sidewalk shish kebab stand or / something...