Word: five
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born to be hated: fresh-faced white boys, copping black street attitudes, co-opting black dance sounds, style and slang. They produce Reddi Wip pop music that comes out of nowhere but sells a cumulative 7 million on two albums, scoring with five hit singles (Cover Girl is currently No. 2), while the R. and B. brothers still struggle for the mainstream breakthrough...
This week the Kids leave home (everyone still lives with his family) for a five-month tour. Starr will show up only occasionally, so the fans, Donnie thinks, will finally learn that "Danny is a great songwriter, Jordan is a great keyboardist, that I am a drummer and singer and dancer." Four years ago, Jordan auditioned for Starr and got told, "Get ready to be great. You are going to be the biggest thing in the world." Replied Jordan: "All I want is a scooter." He got his wish, and then some. Just now, the New Kids on the Block...
...this, Regan and five others were charged with racketeering and effectively put out of business even before the trial began. Last week he was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $325,000, on top of more than $5 million in legal fees he'd incurred...
...South was always saying No! in thunder, and Virginia had a gift of eloquent defiance. In 1959, rather than submit to federal court orders to merge their two public school systems (black and white), the supervisors of Prince Edward County closed them down, and then kept them closed for five years. It was an extension of "massive resistance," the last stand of states' rights. The position was argued in high legalisms. But in deeper truth, Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. and other leaders of white Virginia were constructing a cathedral of rhetoric ("interposition . . . sacred duty . . . priceless natural right . . .") to enshrine...
...private school system for their own children, and offered to help blacks do the same. The blacks insisted on integrated public schools. Black families that were lucky sent their children to relatives in other counties or states where the public schools were open. But many of the children went five years without entering a classroom. At last, the Supreme Court ordered the public schools reopened, and racially integrated. By that time, a generation of Prince Edward's black children had been profoundly wounded. Many have never recovered. The drama blew a hole in their lives. A documentary film about those...