Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reviled, pitied, parodied. Whereas before she was sailing right down the mainstream, Alanis now polarizes audiences. Alanis Unplugged, her new live album, is even more likely to split audiences because it combines hits from Jagged Little Pill, songs from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, a few cover songs (the Police's "King of Pain," for instance) and a couple of new ones. It's a mish-mash of the old and new Alanis. Jagged Little Pill, remember, didn't have a single throwaway song (even the hidden track was fantastic). Junkie tried to show us a more sophisticated Alanis...
...brilliance of Beck, however, is that his new hollowness rocks. He is doing a very sincere (if idiosyncratic) cover of the history of pop music. When, on "Hollywood Freaks," the most majestic track on Midnite Vultures, the background vocals rap-wail "Jockin my Mercedes/Probably have my baby/Shop at Old Navy/He wish he was a lady," Beck isn't making fun of rap, or even of people who shop at Old Navy. He knows all about this, and he isn't afraid to mimic it. And he hopes all the "Hollywood freaks," "b-boys," girls who "look so Israeli" and whom...
...River War arrived at bookstores, Churchill arrived in South Africa to cover the Boer War as a correspondent. He abandoned his civilian status within days when he valiantly came to the aid of stranded British soldiers. His efforts failed, however, and the Boers took the soldiers and Churchill as prisoners-of-war. Churchill spent a month, which included his twenty-fifth birthday, in captivity before he escaped and made a treacherous eleven-day journey out of Pretoria. Notwithstanding huge rewards offered for "W.S. Churchill, Dead or Alive," he arrived safely in Durban, where he learned that he was a hero...
That doesn't seem likely. Although The New York Times newsroom is reportedly awash in hysterics over how to cover the millennium--whether or not the Gray Lady should give in to the poor math of the mob--no one else really cares. For most of us, those three zeroes are pretty convincing...
DIED. KIMBERLY JENSEN, 44, chief operating officer of Mort Zuckerman's publishing group; an apparent suicide; just days after being asked by company officials about money missing from an Atlantic Monthly account; in a Comfort Inn in Ocean City, Md. Her bosses reportedly allege she used company funds to cover sundry personal expenses...