Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the loss of N.F.L. football. On Perelman's side, an alliance with Fox provided an opportunity to create a "vertically integrated" media company that would offer a wider distribution system for New World shows. "We now have the opportunity, with the Fox slots that we got, to really crank up our own programming, in size and number and quality of projects," says Perelman...
...good hardcore, like Minor Threat or Negative Approach, but these guys sucked. It sounds like they were having fun, but it's no fun to listen to. The last song, "Cookypuss," shows their shift towards rap: it features sampled horn and drumbeat, and has a lot of voice over crank calls to Carvel's. It was even fun to listen to, for about thirty seconds...
...with 27 relatives at 219 North Keystone Avenue on Chicago's run-down West Side. The dwelling is as the national headlines described it: drug deals transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton's feet, mixed up in a pile of trash, dirt and other garbage, is some dried-up chopped beef. It's for the dog. "Son of a bitch only eats the best," explains Melton...
...musical iconoclast, best known for his work with the seminal 1960s rock band the Mothers of Invention, was in many ways the prisoner of his own raffish image: hirsute hippie freak; countercultural sire of prototypical Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa and her siblings Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva; opinionated crank ("AIDS is a CIA plot"); and First Amendment scourge of Tipper Gore. With his death from prostate cancer, a few days short of his 53rd birthday, it may now be easier to appreciate an often overlooked fact about Francis Vincent Zappa: he was the most protean and adventurous American composer...
...ULTIMATE CRANK CALL...