Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within the sharp, scary trajectory that followed the band's formation in 1978, the Pretenders absorbed some strong doses of success and a few serious jolts of fate. At times it might have seemed like a tradeoff: two hit singles, Stop Your Sobbing and Brass in Pocket, and one Top Five album, Pretenders; two deaths: James Honeyman-Scott, the lead guitarist, whose body finally gave in to the cumulative destruction wrought by massive infusions of cocaine, and Pete Farndon, whose prolonged bouts with pharmacological excess seemed to accelerate in direct proportion to the band's increasing celebrity. "Because...
From the start, this band had a sound recklessness. was both brash and melodic. The Pretenders burned through the pomp and pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde...
...solemn annual duty of film critics to explain why some feckless movie like Animal House or Caddyshack, Stripes or Porky's is, ahem, not really a very distinguished work. And perhaps express concern for the fate of American thought and culture when such films achieve blinding commercial success. The shame of the nation this year is Police Academy...
...second game was no more fun for the batwomen. The only time Harvard runners reached base in the contest was the first inning. When Andrea was hit by a Reed pitch, and in the third, when Boyer suffered the same fate, taking the ball on her left elbow. She had to leave the game later in the afternoon because of the painful injury...
...fairy queen controls the fate of all the characters, reprieving Iolanthe, helping Strephon rewin his beloved Phyllis, and letting love conquer laws and regulations. And Nan Hughes' Queen stands out with her rich voice and majestic stage presence, ultimately enabling all to live happily ever after...