Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Government Center T station, racing to catch a blue line train to the airport on my way home for Christmas break, when I caught these few lyrics of Poison's classic 1988 power ballad. I hadn't heard the song in at least five years, and memories of the turn of the decade came flooding back--memories of the transition from the carefree days of elementary school to the real world of junior high, from the trusty '80s to the blank slate...
...power ballad emerged out of the male rock of the '70s, from the heavy metal of Alice Cooper to the classic rock of Styx. The first power ballads to make it big in the '80s were hits like "Faithfully" (1983) by the five-man band Journey. But the genre didn't gain mass-market success until the mid-'80s. In 1985, REO Speedwagon recorded the classic "Can't Fight This Feeling." In 1986, Bon Jovi--with their big hair, rugged but soft looks and ordinary-guy sensibility--hit No. 1 with "Livin' on a Prayer." And a year later, Starship...
...classic example came the week that World War II ended. TIME's cover stories, led by the writing of the great James Agee (excerpted earlier in this issue), focused on the dropping of the atom bomb. Later in that issue, in a new section called Atomic Age, TIME wrestled with the historic and moral implications of what passed for progress: Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound...
...janitor (Bud) and a half-wit (Lou) could stumble onto a big silver sausage of a rocketship, flip a few switches, and go all the way to . . . Mardi Gras. Then Venus, with all the usual misadventures and comic contortions along the way. The code term for this is "classic comedy." It's a warning, because it's dated. Soft spots, stiff acting by supporting players, and yet A & C fans (you know who you are) are watching for a reason. The slapping. The double-takes. Watching Costello bounce off the ceiling, and listening to him banter in zero gravity...
...classic case of a team with its dignity on the line simply wanting it more than its opponent...