Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mark their territory. Phish was a ready-made identity, offering a whole subculture to anyone who was prepared to shell out for CDs, let their hair grow out and have a good time. Back then I found it a little creepy, because the people who fell into this crowd were often the school's semi-lost souls, and deciding to like Phish seemed an unreliable way of finding oneself...
...Communications," the clerk told me I won the prize for breadth of taste, and I knew I'd made a breakthrough. That said, there was something disingenuous in my suddenly picking out the Beastie Boys at age 16. As an established member of the Indigo-Girls-and-Ani-DiFranco crowd, I was fully aware of and attracted to the incongruity of my knowing all the words to "Sabotage." I was consciously choosing to assume a slightly unexpected identity. I never listened to that album very much, anyway...
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain brought his crusade for campaign finance reform to his target crowd--youth voters--at a well-attended town meeting at the Institute of Politics Friday...
...money is free speech," McCain told the college-age crowd, "then the special interests are in the front row with megaphones, and you're back there whispering...
...They can't sing. They're professional lip-synchers! No live band, no improvisation. Just pure, 100 percent unconcentrated lip-synching straight out of the carton. No potential for mess-ups, no whines from the crowd that the live versions sound different, no need for talent...