Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this kind of game, while focusing criticism on the correctable, you ultimately concede the uncorrectable; you ultimately concede the uncorrectable; you let the team off the hook and pray for a more fortunate schedule next season...
...music like the mellow Leonard Cohen, the Cowboy Junkies with Sound Garden and other grunge bands. The music, original and unusual in choice, keeps the movie at least sonically interesting. Yes, the director has inserted the (aren't we surprised?) love lyrics of "I want you, etc." during the hook-up scene but other than that, it is quality music...
...family constantly called upon to battle with balky computers and weird electronics. I hook up the VCRs and manipulate the laser disc player, and I have yet to come home without Mom asking me to take a look at some mechanical thing in the house...
...everyone lives in fear, of course, but the ones who don't often are consumed with resentment or ridicule for the people who do. The ones that remain are the fear brokers, who by hook or by crook (often by crook) make a buck off everyone else's terror...
...highways of America, John Mellencamp has hitched his muse to the hopes and broken dreams of the heartland. Even before the mid-'80s, when he renounced the pop artifice of his John Cougar past and took back his given name, he had found his calling as a spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), he used electric violin and accordion to evoke...