Word: color
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door," he says. Even failures from the period are being revived. Telstar, a tiny start-up company in Milwaukee, Wis., is offering a reproduction of the Predicta TV set, which was a spectacular failure when it was first introduced in 1958. The updated model has '90s amenities, such as color and a remote control, costs more than $2,000 and already has competitors...
Zzzzzzzarrrrrrrzzzzzzarrrrr! The soul-rock singer Seal is mixing himself a weird-looking drink. It's a pale-green health-food shake that's not entirely dissimilar in color and consistency to what one imagines might be found growing on the side of a transatlantic ocean liner. ZZZZZarrrrr! The sound of the electric blender mixing this concoction fills Seal's roomy Manhattan hotel suite, making conversation impossible. He adds a few vitamins to the sludge. ZZZZZZZarrrrr! Finally, the shake is done. It has the quality of primordial ooze; you half expect creatures part fish, part mammal to crawl...
...world without race and asks the question, Would people still be able to find a way and a reason to discriminate? The song was inspired by a trip Seal took to Monte Carlo two years ago. The city was filled with wealthy whites, and the only other person of color he saw was a black street cleaner. The opening track, Human Beings, also deals with a weighty theme: partly inspired by the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., the song ruminates on death, self-esteem and fame...
Enlivened by a fine selection of black-and-white and color photos, The Century is a journalists' even-handed and vivid narrative of epochal global events and decisive mood changes in the nation's character. On the '70s: " ...the need to feel 'guilt free' in one's private life, to act without a sense of limits, became, for many, paramount. Thus...fewer trips to the confessional (though decidedly more visits to psychotherapists), freer attitudes toward sex, and a new vocabulary entry that described just about anyone with a private conscience as possessed of 'hang...
...throwback to golden age piano virtuosos--wizards like Ignaz Friedman, Josef Hofmann and Leopold Godowsky--whose keyboard pyrotechnics lit up concert halls during the first 40 years of this century. He is fascinated by the piano's expressive range, its ability to produce almost orchestral varieties of sounds and colors, seemingly bound only by the performer's own limitations. These varied works--by Rachmaninoff, Alkan, Busoni, Godowsky and others--are wickedly difficult, yet Hamelin plays them, often at dazzling speeds, with color, power, a long line and unfailing elan. He also performs three of his own witty, equally difficult etudes...