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Word: corduroy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...driven Bugs, for example, sounds like something circus clowns might perform before a Greenwich Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing guitars -- but the melody is pretty and whistleable, and you can't forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Scathing Guitars, Pretty Tunes | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...Paterno: A Nebraska loss and a new corduroy jacket to wear on the Pasadena sidelines January...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: All I Want From Santa Is... | 12/17/1994 | See Source »

...Dukakis] really needs to work on clothes," Farnsworth said. "Corduroy pants and white L.A. Gear shoes just...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Dukakis Discusses Health Care | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

...definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe's "weird" taste in music appealing. All four eventually linked up at a party, discovered they shared musical interests and started a band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK: Monster Music | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...Beijing (called alternately the Cotton Market or yifu--clothing--alley), J. Crew Barn Jackets sell, (after a little bargaining), for $10. Silk Ann Taylor Blouses, $5. Laura Ashley-esque sundresses, $3!! Who cares if the seamstresses worked double overtime for 2 cents an hour in steamy firetraps gluing the corduroy cuffs on that barn jacket Exploitation Shmexploitation. Where else you can find a trendy coat for one Alex Hamilton? Besides, by purchasing that fashionable item in the PRC, you're transferring a little bit of an evil big business' 2500 percent profit to an independent Chinese small-business owner, thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Most Favored Nation. | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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