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Word: lauper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Girls,” where Tricky puts Prodigy in their place, sneering, “I’m not a firestarter, ‘cause I’m a little smarter”), Alanis Morissette, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, and, perhaps most bizarrely, Cyndi Lauper on “Five Days” (remember “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”?) Tricky is completely unrepentant about the commercially appealing nature of the album: Blowback is Tricky’s re-introduction to MTV after conquering his demons. He has found himself a rock solid band...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Divergent Evolution: 'Blowback' and 'Vespertine' | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...which SST, the most influential of indie labels, could scrape by despite its "stoner administrative quality," as Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo puts it; and, as Bob Bert alleges in one story, Sonic Youth could absent-mindedly sign contracts with two labels for the same songs. As Cyndi Lauper once observed, money changes everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bands that Made Nirvana | 7/31/2001 | See Source »

...with the losing side in any war, we will resist the truth as long as we can. We will listen to Cyndi Lauper and Dr. Dre on the golden oldies station. We will collect mint-condition "Now-And-Later" labels at area auctions and wonder whatever happened to Mr. T. We will bemoan an age in which people no longer take the time to e-mail...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Alas, Poor Trapper Keeper | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...every reading took on such hefty subject matter, as Tuft's Jacquelyn Benson lightened things up with a dramatic reading of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." Josette Akresh of Boston University staked her claim for the poetic medium with comedic bluntness, "If you don't appreciate poetry you're an ignorant fool...You need a taste of Socrates and a good hard punch in the kisser." Some of the more memorable idiomatic expressions of the night included the fascinating simile, "waves like asses rise and fall," as well as another student's symbolic appropriation of Richard Dean Anderson...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Mahler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Yet in Norton: College Poets Live | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

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