Word: hula
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cubism is a fad with many facets. American frivolity in the fine tradition of hula hoops and skateboards. Sillier than a corporate executive on a pogo stick, it could lighten the national blue period. But perhaps because the Museum of Modern Art has found the cube aesthetically comparable to Mondrian and Picasso, the trend has assumed and unbecoming air of profundity...
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...never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. For a while it seemed to be a fad, one more instantaneous American fixation like the twist or the Hula-Hoop. The U.S., after all, had become the country of spectator sports, hadn't it? Walking was all but unAmerican. Long-distance running was for Europeans. "It'll never last," said the wise guys over the second martini...
...RUMOUR ARE inextricably linked with Rockpile: They even cover a Lowe song on their new album. Both bands are from the "pub rock" scene family tree of the early seventies, where band and audience got drunk and danced together. The movement was shorter lived than the hula hoop, and left these two groups without a musical home. The Rumour formed as a studio band for gas-station-attendant-turned-songwriter Graham Parker, and have had trouble appearing from behind his shadow. Their problem is not musical ability; they play everything from Motown to reggae to Abba, all with their...
...face it--there are 19 bowl games between now and January 17, plus professional football's countdown to the Super Bowl--football is forever. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...