Word: frats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South Carolina at Columbia. Lead singer Darius Rucker says the band was formed "to make a bit of money, drink a few beers and meet a lot of girls." That was nine years ago. On their major label debut, Cracked Rear View (Atlantic), the band still plays with frat- party swagger -- big, bearish guitar work, brawny drumming -- but Rucker's expressive, doleful vocals reveal an admirably serious intent...
...individual sexual- harassment case, probably would not have been made in the pre-Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill era. But ever since the entire country pulled up to the tube to watch Thomas fight off charges that he had harassed his subordinate, the American workplace has resembled an embattled frat house where boys struggle to discern the boundary between sexual civility and salacious misconduct. Heightened attention to the issue of sexual transgression, however, seems to have eclipsed discussion of the more profoundly common ways men and women communicate -- or fail to communicate -- with one another in offices, schools and factories every...
Breaking the CIA's Frat Code...
...wise-guy anchor of Weekend Update for six years on Saturday Night Live, Dennis Miller came across as a smug, overage frat boy. Now, sporting a full beard and a fresh dose of righteous zeal, he's the angry prophet of the airwaves -- Howard Beale with a bottle of Evian. On his new late-night HBO show, Miller delivers well-tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject...
BACK IN THE PALEOCAPITALISTIC ERA, as long ago as 10 years, anthropologists studying the breeding, feeding and plumage patterns of Wall Street concentrated on carnivores -- called gunslingers -- grownup frat boys in yellow ties and red suspenders who peddled junk bonds, drove BMWs and bought $2 million co-ops on Manhattan's East Side. Forget them: today they're fuddled old greedsters sitting around in their East Hampton beach houses wondering what happened...