Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elijah Wald, a music critic for the Boston Globe, and directed by Boston-based filmmaker John Junkerman, is a multimedia event: there's a corresponding seven-hour, seven-part series airing on Public Radio International; a 36-song, two-CD sound track (Smithsonian Folkways); and a 352-page companion book (St. Martin's). But the purpose of each is singularly focused: to document the contemporary musical traditions that thrive on the banks of the Mississippi, from Lake Itasca, the river's source, to where the waters empty into the Gulf of Mexico...
...series is nimbly narrated by folk-punk guitarist Ani DiFranco, who brings curiosity and energy to the project. "Beneath the surface of mainstream popular culture, there is the ever-present undercurrent of organically generated music," DiFranco writes in the River of Song companion book. "I'm talking about the indigenous, unhomogenized, uncalculated sound of a culture becoming itself in the streets, bars, gyms, churches and back porches of the real world...
...might expect than only kids would have 55 hours a week to spend online -- the average dose for self-described addicts -- but researchers were surprised to discover that the typical Net fiend was closer to 30. They also tended to be depressed and introverted -- hardly surprising when your main companion is named Dell...
...spotted two boys swinging on a set of parallel bars. "Is that a cigarette that he's holding?" asked a sheriff's deputy. The officers approached the boys and confiscated half of a Black and Mild cigar. Jesse Lee, 13, who was holding it, got a ticket. His companion, also 13, responded by mumbling obscenities at the cops. "I could see if we robbed somebody or stole a car and killed somebody," he said. "This don't make no sense." To the antitobacco crusaders, however, neither does smoking...
...result has been a project that is more popular than we dared dream. Indeed, the issue you hold is the largest in TIME's 75-year history. The companion television show will air on CBS Wednesday...