Word: knights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no fistfighting anymore," complained a frightened neighbor of one of the victims. "If they have a confrontation, they go get their guns." Mayor David Dinkins vowed that his city "would not roll over" to the killers. But at week's end 14-year-old Shamel Knight was gunned down in a dispute over a moped...
...Kids videos have turned over 3.3 million copies, setting a sales record that surpasses even Michael Jackson's. Paperback band bios have occupied the No. 2 and No. 3 positions on best-seller lists simultaneously, even though both are officially "unauthorized." "I looked through one of them," says Jordan Knight, 20, the hunk of the bunch. "It's not good, but it didn't put us down or anything." A glossier and more expensive "authorized" biography has just been released...
...debate about exactly how live the New Kids show is (is it real, or is it lip-synched?), and quite a bit more about how slickly the New Kids have been packaged and sold. The financial phenomenon of the New Kids is part of the total experience. As performers, Knight and his brother Jonathan, 21, Wood, 21, Donnie Wahlberg, 20, and Joseph McIntyre, 17, are as sleek, nimble and nifty as a pair of Air Jordans. The audience, overwhelmingly white female, is invited to enjoy their moves and their music. But their stage show, which has charm and vitality...
...Kids resent imputations that their show is canned and that they continue to play Pinocchios to Starr's funky Gepetto. Says Jon Knight: "I think we have a lot of spontaneity, if there is such a word." Beefs Wahlberg: "People don't give us credit. Janet Jackson sat down with her producers and came up with the concept of Rhythm Nation. That's the same thing we did with our album." If there is a unifying concept behind Step by Step, it is one of forthright -- indeed, brazen -- commercial calculation, which is one thing that sets the Kids apart from...
...today's young people "have got their own TV and their own video systems." Friedman is trying to make the NBC newscast "more relevant" to young viewers by stressing family issues and adding touches of irreverent humor. Louis Heldman, who is studying how to counteract declining readership for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, observes that people today, especially young working women, have less spare time for news. "Information needs to be delivered more efficiently," he says, "to people who are trying to get the kids dressed for school and who may spend most of their time with the paper...