Word: idol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still isn't interactive. MTV may soon be involved in the technology. But a few artists -- such as Billy Idol, the British punkster whose first band was named (remember?) Generation X -- are already living...
...into music to do it myself without the oppressive thumb of convention," says Idol, who released a Macintosh floppy disk with his album Cyberpunk. Yet for years Idol was "trapped in recording studios with my band trying to get the music right -- playing, arranging, figuring it all out -- while the money clock ticked away." Then he found a technology that allowed him to create a "virtual studio" in his home. "I was excited. It was 'live' to the computer...
...Rodriguez, the Cuban-born president of the No. 1 Spanish-language network in the U.S., Miami-based Univision. "Go to a restaurant like Victor's Cafe, and you know half the people -- the writers, the stars and the reps." Many of them live in Miami: the Venezuelan singing idol Jose Luis Rodriguez, known as El Puma; the Dominican merengue star Juan Luis Guerra; and Don Francisco, the pudgy, jovial host of Latin TV's most popular show ever, Sabado Gigante, based -- where else? -- in Miami...
...resemble other presidencies. But the line has changed, and officials now realize that Clinton does best in an atmosphere of siege, likes to make enormous changes at the last minute, and takes some comfort in knowing that however bad it might seem now, it was even worse for his idol John F. Kennedy. The continuing crisis will continue. "That's life," said policy adviser George Stephanopoulos last week. "We're going to have to do it a couple of more times...
Before the game, Irish coach Lou Holtz, an old friend of Bowden's, might have wished he had F.S.U.'s quarterback Charlie Ward. Smooth and stoic, Ward is an idol on the Tallahassee campus; he was elected student-body president in his junior year. A starting point guard for the 'Noles basketball team as well as conductor of Bowden's fast-break offense, Ward sees his job as simply getting the ball to his teammates. He has done that brilliantly enough this fall, completing 69% of his passes in F.S.U.'s first nine games and throwing & for 16 touchdowns with...