Word: fab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band's last two years together. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, on video and CD, is a long-lost 1968 concert that Mick Jagger & Co. shared with the Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and--guess who--John Lennon and his bride Yoko Ono. The Fab Four and Their Satanic Majesties--together again for the first time...
...Burt Bacharach's sophisticated pop ballads has been issued in Britain. The decade's prime confectors are appealingly, exhaustively available on the 10-hr. video version of The Beatles Anthology--more than twice the length of last year's TV special, with many more archival performances of the Fab Four's hits--as an appetizer for the final Anthology CD set, due in late October...
...This "fab" ab fad is, of course, grounded in vanity. Unlike cardiovascular exercise which strengthens the heart, or weightlifting which enables athletes to compete at a higher level, developing the abdominal muscles offers little reward aside from physical appearance (unless your name happens to be Li Xioa-Xuang and you are performing the iron cross on the rings...
Even worse, I had to throw my hands in the air trying to follow Michigan basketball. As I graduated high school, I watched fellow Detroit Country Day alum Chris Webber and the rest of the Fab Five blow it in the NCAA finals again. Last spring, I suffered through watching a bunch of new hot shots stink up Dayton Arena in a firstround loss to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers...
...Wolfe's attack is evidence that our proud traditions are changing. No longer are leaders like Joe Moakley and Ted Kennedy able to keep uncooperative voices silent. For many its a sad fact--almost as if Wolfe burned down Fenway Park and slapped back up some pre-fab cousin of the Georgia Dome. A new, much less distinctive way of life, is taking over the city of Boston...