Word: gum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lyric Stage's production may not have quite as much polish as you could wish for, but the spirited acting and the barren stage lend themselves to a certain charm. The play is acted out against Joe levendusky's economical stage design of four gum trees and an anonymous white mass that might be an anthill or a ship's sail...
...this music is innovative, not just a kowtow to the blues progressions of 70s rock nor an insipid imitation of punk. If we are confronted with a smorgasbord of styles, it may be because Rock peaked in the seventies and frayed in the eighties in the face of gum-snapping pop mall music from hell. Rock is resurfacing in the 90s like a groundhog scared of its own shadow, and many musicians claim they'd rather be dead (or unsigned) than be imitators of their predecessors or of each other. So we're left with a load of musicians scrambling...
...AWAKENED several nights ago by the slow collapse of one of my posters as my Harvard-issue poster gum once again displayed its worth. The poster, entitled "Don't I Know You," features Bo Jackson in a series of athletic outfits. There is Bo, the former Kansas City Royal, brandishing a bat with those massive arms. Several Bos down, there is LeBo, star of the Montreal Canadiens, with skates half-laced and (according to my Canadian roommate, who should know) holding his stick the wrong...
Spike Lee pulled a piece of gum from his mouth and deposited it somewhere behind the podium. Then he began to speak, in slow, measured tones...
...vandals] spit gum on the roof and saw no one was in the cruiser," Cooper said. "They must have run backand gotten the chair, thrown it and ran like abastard...