Word: deejays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk about her scroungy years in New York. She recalls being fired from a long succession of ratty jobs. She resents suggestions that she slept her way to the top. That is not because she didn't learn her trade from a succession of musicians and deejays, some of whom she slept with, but because the idea that she couldn't make it to the top on drive and talent alone is insulting. In fact the men in her life talk about her now % without rancor; it seems to have been obvious even then that Madonna was just passing through...
Pittman went off to nearby Millsaps College and became a deejay there; offered better radio jobs in Milwaukee, Detroit and then Pittsburgh, he kept transferring to new schools. Despite a strong interest in sociology, he never did finish college, but at 20 he became the program director of NBC's WMAQ in Chicago and switched it from middle-of-the-road pop to country music...
...attracts up to 1,200 patrons each night to its multilevel cavern of stages and dance floors, plus four giant screens and 15 video monitors integrated with computer graphics. A good club disc jockey keeps well ahead of radio, dropping a record when it starts getting air play. Says Deejay Roy Freedom: "The club is an escape. People want to hear something that's not on the car radio...
...groups like Scandal, who might have been bypassed on a full-price album. The 12-in. single ($3.49), an extended version of the standard 45-r.p.m. disc remixed with extra instrumental riffs for dancing, can sell as many as 200,000 units extra for every million-selling hit. Deejay John ("Jellybean") Benitez, 25, of Manhattan's Fun House, is so accomplished at remixing hits for club use that his version of Far from Over, the single from the just released Staying Alive sound track, has been made the official one by RSO Records. He stretches the song by moving...
...update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women are no longer listed as a sub-category of mankind...