Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Intense respect for the transforming potential of clothes is scarcely indigenous to Texas, but there are, as so often happens in the state, regional exaggerations. One of the supreme moments of a rich young girl's life is her debut-year tour of the festivals: the Battle of the Flowers Parade in San Antonio, the Texas Rose Festival in Tyler, the Buccaneer Days in Corpus Christi, where the girls are wheeled around on carts while hoi polloi pay to watch the spectacle. These dresses, talismans of youth and beauty, are preserved forever, or until they take up too much house...
...official debut will take place in Atlanta this week on the 99th anniversary of the original product's birth. The company will transform the city's downtown park into a three-ring circus. Theme for the day: "Step right up to the greatest taste on earth." Coke will also be launching 25,000 red and white balloons, skywriters, banner-flying planes and a skyful of fireworks. Said Coca-Cola Spokesman Robert Hope in a moment of candor: "We're using every glitzy thing you can imagine...
...Marr's guitar riffs in elegant, almost improvised anxiety. Morrissey's lyrics express the range of human emotions from suicidal depression to mild unhappiness; he's the ugly, shy boy who everyone picks on and thinks is a fairy--and they're right, too. Yet the Smith's eponymous debut album never descended into mere whining; the self-pity was tempered by self-deprecating humor and self-aware forgiveness...
...Their debut album, Ratilesnake, has crawled into a dark hole in the charts, but it contains understated pop that, while not obviously challenging doesn't dip into the insultingly trivial Rattlesnake suffers from overly wimpy production with Barry Manilow string backups and too little bass or drum support one almost thinks that 'Producer Paul Hardiman' is a pseudonym for James Taylor...
...their recent Boston debut at the Channel. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions put on a well-received show featuring the pleasing blend of guitarists Cole. Neil Clark and bassist Lawrence Donegan. The band is still a little stiff live, but Cole's cryptically personal songs bridge the band's charisma...