Word: limp
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...moratorium on banks' foreign debt and a rescheduling of $40 billion in domestic debt. Given the decline of the ruble, this was roughly the same as announcing an intention to pay off debt with green cheese. Investors, to no one's surprise, rushed to sell out, until the limp, overloaded markets finally shut down. Russia, deprived of international capital--James Dorn of the Cato Institute calls it "financial morphine"--went into shock. Explained Steven Halliwell, a partner at River Capital Management: "As far as we can tell, Russia is in an absolute panic situation...
...your report about pay-for-play on the radio [SHOW BUSINESS, Aug. 3], you gave a false impression of the Flip Records/Interscope band Limp Bizkit. Although in the spring of 1998 Flip/Interscope did have a pay-for-play contract with radio station KUFO of Portland, Ore., the arrangement didn't really have any long-term impact on Limp Bizkit's success. Before there was significant airplay from any radio station, including KUFO, Limp Bizkit's debut record, upon release in July 1997, landed on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and stayed there for more than 40 weeks; it will be gold...
Infighting between bands on this fall's Family Values tour has reached a Faulknerian level of dysfunction. Scheduled to perform are heavy-metal favorites KoRn, Orgy and Limp Bizkit, but one relative off the roster is ROB ZOMBIE, pictured below. Two weeks ago, members of KoRn claimed they kicked Zombie off the tour for, among other transgressions, "not exemplifying the community spirit of the trek." They replaced him with German band Rammstein, with whom they share "a great mutual love and respect." Last week Zombie fired back, saying he quit the tour because he was being prevented from staging...
...houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there are 50 sketch groups in Toronto alone. The cleverest of them, like L.A.'s sketch-comedy and a capella troupe the But Franklies, try to expand the genre. The rest are busy perfecting Limp...
...Beasties styled themselves as hipper than hip-hop, cooler than punk and masters of both. The trio's over-the-top boasts seemed to send up each genre's excesses. But the Beasties' new CD comes across not as a send-up but as a limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album is a tedious, dispiriting task not unlike sorting a backlog...