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Dave Anderson, tour manager, credited MTV for raising voting rates among voters ages 18-25, noting the station runs frequent get-out-the-vote commercials featuring celebrities such as Madonna, REM and Pearl Jam...
...year: the year when you're officially inculcated into upperclass Harvard life and begin evincing signs of superiority, but still harbor secret (or not so secret) yearnings for relics of your first year, as evidenced by a not unsubstantial sophomore attendance at the ice cream bash, the a cappella jam, and other such Crimson Key events. And unlike the hotly contested "freshman" versus "first-year" debate last year, this sentiment is nearly ubiquitous. He who disputes this doth protest too much...
...caught on in a big way with black teenagers. Unlike other designers whose clothes have become inner-city status symbols, Hilfiger reached out to the market, adding urban flair--oversize logos, swagger style--to what had been a fairly conservative line. Says Russell Simmons, the savvy founder of Def Jam Records: "Tommy's clothing represents the American Dream to black kids. They're not interested in buying holey jeans; they want high-quality merchandise." They also like bulk. While the rest of fashion is pushing a lean look, Hilfiger shows baggy jeans and definitive tops. In March 1994, Snoop Doggy...
...guys in the Seattle-based rock band Pearl Jam are only in their 30s, but the group's newest album, No Code, makes it sound as if they're having a midlife crisis. The songs on the CD flail this way and that, screamingly loud on the vocal-chord-stripping song Lukin, restrained and dreamy on the ballad Off He Goes and fuzzily philosophical on the mostly laid-back number Present Tense. Sonic variety can be a good thing--the Smashing Pumpkins' brilliant double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, also veered all over...
Instead, the band seems content to follow trails blazed by others. The spiritualized, bass-heavy Who You Are is a solid number, but it clearly owes a lot to Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, with whom Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder worked on the sound track to the film Dead Man Walking. Other songs are even more derivative. The countrified garage rocker Smile sounds like a Neil Young tune, right down to the harmonica solo (Pearl Jam worked with Young on his 1995 album, Mirror Ball); it's pleasant enough, but it lacks the ornery soul of the genuine...