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...bigger following. Irish vocalist Sinead O'Connor was featured in a 1991 show, and progressive rockers R.E.M. appeared later that same year. Other A-list musicians--Sting, Eric Clapton, Arrested Development--soon followed. Older performers went on Unplugged to revive careers, younger rockers to boost new ones. When Pearl Jam paid a visit in 1992, it was largely unknown; its Unplugged appearance was an important milestone in the band's drive toward megastardom. Aging soulman Rod Stewart's acoustic set spawned an Unplugged album that sold 3 million copies. Coming full circle, folk-rock trailblazer Bob Dylan, who enraged music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOW VOLTAGE, HIGH POWER | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

Mark Leyner's new Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog is a wacky potpourri of satire that grazes on modern topics from deconstructionism to sperm banks. Tooth Imprints follows Leyner's similarly odd Et Tu, Babe and is jam-packed with random episodes of hysterical weirdness...

Author: By Mark Leyner, | Title: Leyner Imprints on Paranoid World | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

Each session took on its own character, Moloney says, "like chapters in a book." The Rolling Stones, who did The Rocky Road to Dublin, a roistering waltz with an impish touch of Satisfaction thrown in, showed up with their own bar. Moloney's tight charts soon surrendered to jam-session chaos. At gig's end, the genial mob adjourned to a pub and quaffed Guinness until 6 in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FROM EMERALD TO GOLD | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...going to say a word, and you're going to say the first thing that pops into your head: Toe jam...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...Frogs because toe jam sounds like toads...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Profiles: Irit Tau '97 and Tracy S. Ross '97 | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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