Word: cool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...competition involving nine possible sites. Most of the nuclear rubbish is in the form of 12-ft.-long spent fuel rods that have been stored for nearly 30 years at the 85 power plants scattered across the U.S. The water pools used at the plant sites to cool and temporarily hold the rods are filling...
...where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...
...takin' Carrie to the high school prom/ something's always goin' wrong." The Ramones are the philosopher kings of nerddom ("Every one's a secret nerd/ Every one's a closet lame"), the laureates of losers everywhere. They have no interest whatsoever in being cool, and for that alone may they always be blessed...
David Bowie: Tonight (EMI/America). Cool, however, is meant to be the core of David Bowie, as if he were some sort of Amana appliance. This new record has fielded one of Bowie's most infectious Top Ten hits, Blue Jean, but the album has taken some hard knocks for being less a fresh direction than a kind of holding pattern that is good for dancing. Indeed, several of the songs are vintage items from the portfolio of Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake...
...Souther: Home by Dawn (Warner Bros.). Smooth ballads and caustic rockers about misfired romance and misguided adventure by one of the most adept exponents of what has come to be known, somewhat derisively, as "the L.A. sound." Back in the mid-'70s, Los Angeles was the capital of cool, and Souther and the Eagles were the cornerstones of close harmony and acrid social observation. Punk and new wave blew this kind of music out of the water, or at least seemed to. But the substance of new wave could not always keep pace with the style, which...