Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how much you loathe the show Total Request Live is the arena to launch music (the American Bandstand of the '90s). If you crack the countdown, chances are you'll show up on the Billboard Hot 100 the next Thursday. Want proof? Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears' assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time last December. But TRL once known for having Backstreet Boys at #1, 'NSync at #2, 98 Degrees at #3 every single day isn't just bubblegum pop anymore. On Friday's show, Backstreet held...
...Theyre 15 years old! Yup, they're the new Abba Generation (the title of their first album). The teens will eat it up, parents will indulge in the nostalgia, and TRL will have a new countdown mainstay...
...probably just touched something and didn't wash my hands before I ate," says Peter D. Richards '01, who deferred his first year of college to travel to Egypt with his brother...
...screen "adaptation" of A Prayer for Owen Meany. It was so terrible, in fact, that Irving forced Disney to remove the original characters' names from the movie, leaving only a "loosely inspired by" credit. These films were missing one key piece: Irving himself. The Cider House Rules is the first screenplay he wrote himself, and it shows. He manages to capture the spirit of the novel without making caricatures of the main players. The people in the movie are drawn with attention to reality and complexity--plausibility never lapses...
Even if they don't all end up participating in varsity or junior varsity athletics, approximately 700 first-years come in for the athlete-mandatory sports physicals every year, according to David S. Rosenthal '59, director of the University Health Services...