Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stones' legendary entree. Theirs has not been an easy road. They were a hot club band on the East Coast, "really quite well known," as Mick Jagger says. "But they couldn't get a record deal because they were black and they weren't playing funk. They didn't fit into a category." A black band romping in the white world of hard rock is an anomaly (or, as the promo men would say, a hard sell) even today. Musicians may cross over a lot, but radio stations seldom do. Vernon Reid, 31, who plays guitar with...
...band for people who feel things extremely," says Michael Been, the group's songwriter. "We're not for people who are extremely cool, for whom cool is the ultimate expression." From available auguries, it seems that the '90s may not be too cool either, so the Call should fit right in, finally. They have been cult favorites for about ten years now, but the title track of the new album is % getting some wide play on the radio. "We shouldn't waste rock 'n' roll," Been says. "Rock should be looking at some of the big questions...
Guru Ma claims to be the channel through which these spirits speak to earthbound mortals. Despite their warning that the U.S. will suffer a nuclear attack in October this year, "America the Vulnerable," she grumbles, has not even "seen fit to have an ABM system in place...
...writing the column, and the publisher in St. Joe, Mich., let us know that he was not running that column. He printed a box on Page One saying there would be no Ann Landers column today because she's dealing with a subject that we feel is not fit for a family newspaper. Of course, everybody in town ran to buy the Detroit Free Press to see what it was that Ann Landers was talking about that the paper wouldn't print...
This model nicely fit the wide-open White House that George Bush wanted. So he recruited Porter, 43, whose mild and cerebral persona almost defines honest broker, to play the role for domestic issues. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft does the job for defense and foreign policy...