Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this column does mention The Graduate every other week and it won't stop until every last one of you miserable pre-professionals has seen this film, and understands what it's like to be sensitive enough to be alienated from society. And by the way, it's not cool to yell "Plastics" before the character says...
After hitting the market in October 1978 as an unassuming, mellow but cool version of punk music, the Police were marketed by A&M side by side with fellow "Catch a new wave"r Joe Jackson. Their first album produced a hit single on FM, "Roxanne". Their second album was a rush job, showing a respectable sense of humor and musical variation. Then, like Blondie, the Police unfortunately broke out of cult status with their third album, obscuring both where they were coming from and where they were going to. Last year's Zenyatta Mondatta was the last...
...recording 60s hits with the added technology of the 80s. When the songs come on the radio, in a bar, in a club, they ahve built-in instant recognition value. Barland Jeffreys did this to "96 Tears", Karla DeVito (on her astoundingly titled album, Is this a Cool World or WHAT?) recycled "Midnight Confessions." Last summer's "Stars on 45" melded dozens of these songs into one disco fiasco...
...initial U.S. response to a North-South summit was cool. The Reagan Administration opposes the Third World's demand for "global negotiations" under U.N. auspices-an idea that will be strongly promoted at Cancún. Nor is the Administration, with its emphasis on economic retrenchment at home, enthusiastic about debating vast new outlays of foreign aid (now running at about $6 billion a year). The Reagan team, moreover, views foreign aid as an adjunct of its military and political policies, rewarding more on the basis of friendship than need...
...answer to a question from the audience, Pauley said that most woman newscasters are blondes and that older women are becoming more acceptable as broadcasters. She added, "By the time I retire, it will be cool to have gray hair...