Word: knighting
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...Kids on the Block were still teenagers when their 1986 debut album, New Kids on the Block, changed the face of prepubescent pop by putting a teen- idol spin on a black urban beat. Eight years and 60 million albums, singles and videotapes later, the group -- Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Danny Wood and Joe McIntyre -- are no longer new and no longer kids. Now in their mid-20s, they have, in show-biz terms at least, reached that other awkward age, groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them...
Dirty Dawg, with its thrusting rhythms and rich harmonies, flirts with -- but stops short of -- the gangsta rap misogyny of Snoop Doggy Dogg. Jordan Knight sounds more peevish than menacing when he sings, "I gave you all that I can/ Till I caught you swinging with another man/ But this time you strayed too far/ Now you come begging like...
...fray on the side of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who, when he heard of his rival's death, pronounced that the man had been "a political corpse for a long time." Without confirmation of when, how or even if Gamsakhurdia died, it is not yet certain whether Georgia's knight-errant is a corpse of any kind...
...typified most other UAs: friendly, sympathetic, but often lacking the knowledge necessary to assist people having problems. Ask them anything that's technical (as opposed to asking for a form or a stapler), they nod and keep on smiling, but they are not going to be your White Knight...
...France only in October, whereas The Visitors has been playing since February), but the Poire comedy is a genuine phenomenon, earning a record-smashing $70 million. "We have no dinosaurs," Poire said smilingly on opening night. What The Visitors has is a solid farce premise (a 12th century knight and his servant are magically stranded in today's French suburbs), a toilet-bowl sense of humor and a few tricks swiped from Hollywood: breakneck pace and gaudy visual effects. The time-travel buffoonery of Encino Man meets Ghostbusters' technical sorcery. En France...