Word: formation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, hardcore is not the first movement in rock whose message broke away from the musical tradition it perpetuated. The punk movement, for instance, was essentially a backlash against the free love and peace spirit of the hippie era. Yet, the punks use a traditional rock format (albeit in a much harsher, angrier form than that of the 60s) as their instrument in fighting the rock music of the 60s and 70s. The punk movement may have started as a rebellion against the falseness of the decaying ideas of the hippie revolution. But by the 80s, the slashed haircuts...
...sounds like a souped-up har her hybrid of punk and heavy metal. Thus, just as the punk movement revamped the rock of the 60s and early 70s while taking their inspiration from the spare, fast style form 50s rock'n roll. Husker Du in turn revamp the punk format deriving their inspiration from some of the heavy metal...
...Lebanese President Amin Gemayel's government. Then he said that he had meant the Gemayel Cabinet but not the President. Still later, he insisted that he had been right the first time, and that Gemayel himself should resign. "We will not take part in any government or format with President Gemayel," he declared in Damascus...
...Koppel says he never wanted it. When ABC News President Roone Arledge telephoned to ask if he was interested, Koppel said, "Let me make it easier for you," and opted to stay on Nightline. His choice makes sense to TV journalists. Says CBS Morning News Anchor Diane Sawyer: "The format of Nightline has to be the envy of every serious broadcast journalist. He has control and, above all, time to explore a subject...
Even the scientists are portrayed with an astonishing diversity of styles; at different times Van Loon pictures Francis Crick and James Watson, discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA, as Bat. In addition, the comic book format in the only one in which the arcane and often ridiculous jargon of molecular biology makes sense...