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...town is gearing up, not entirely wholeheartedly, for what it is calling Roswell UFO Encounter '97, a celebration that will include a flying-saucer Soap Box Derby, films, symposiums (speakers include Erich von Daniken, author of Chariots of the Gods?) and what an organizer describes as "a UFO belly dancer." Crowds of upwards of 100,000 are hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSWELL OR BUST | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

When the British band the Prodigy played Irving Plaza in New York City this month, something extraordinary happened. Yes, the performance had punk-rock vigor; Keith Flint, the singer-dancer with the shock-rock hairdo, made Halloween faces at the crowd, emcee Maxim did some barechested stage strutting, and band mastermind Liam Howlett coolly orchestrated the show from behind his banks of keyboards. But from the first note, the sweaty, expectant crowd, which had seen the band pushed on MTV for months, began to dance. There's no dancing at alternative-rock shows--people merely mosh, which is as close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: WHO YOU CALLING TECHNO? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...earliest inspiration from American hip-hop acts like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. He subsequently submerged himself in Britain's burgeoning hip-hop-influenced, Ecstasy-popping rave culture. In 1989 he formed a band with Flint, Keith Palmer (Maxim) and Leeroy Thornhill, who became the group's featured dancer. Their early CDs featured soft techno-dance tunes. They were hits in England, but they sold poorly in the U.S., and the Prodigy's first record label, Elektra, let the band go in 1994. "Elektra did not have the balls to do anything with the Prodigy," says Howlett. "They didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: WHO YOU CALLING TECHNO? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...poured FAS resources into large-scale projects like the Memorial Hall/Loker Commons Complex, the massive renovation of first-year dorms and the Barker Center for the Humanities. According to his wife, he's also a great dancer...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold and Chana R. Schoenberger | Title: Portrait Of a Dean | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...tremendous vitality, and he was a great dancer," Jane Knowles says. "I played the violin, and he played the piano, and we sang in all the same choruses...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold and Chana R. Schoenberger | Title: Portrait Of a Dean | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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