Word: madness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Geffen told the band to whiten up and lighten up "not because they were a racist record company. They were only reflecting a basic reality of the music business." But then, deflecting such realities, changing the perspectives and finding a soulful congeniality is the method behind the band's mad music...
...particular, all youth is mad about appearance. For some, it is the designer labels, for others, a flashy neoprimitivism, and of course, the punk hair and fashion styles (somewhat muted) have diffused to become fixtures of a generation whose members feel compelled to make "statements" with green hair, polo players, crystals, and motorcycle boots, even unto the "artful" ripping of jeans--a message that bespeaks both bodily obsession and an obscene consumerism...
...Granite City, Ill., are asked an unusual question: Would they be willing to write a letter thanking the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices for the right to have an abortion? Few refuse. Says Lori, 30, a businesswoman who terminated her pregnancy there earlier this month: "It really makes me mad that they are trying to outlaw...
...world, once it gets a good look at Bikkembergs' footwear, may go easy around his extremities. One of his more conservative shoe collections was a madcap combination of combat boots and vintage Olympic running shoes, a sort of rough-trade revision of Chariots of Fire. Laces looped into mad interstices, toes were rounded off into inverted parentheses and functional elements of the shoe -- like the tongue -- threatened to become design elements all on their...
When the "disintegrating influence of money-mad athletics" was first hot, Judge Saul Streit condemned the University of Kentucky as "the acme of commercialism and overemphasis." That was in 1952, after hearings on Kentucky's role in college basketball's point-shaving scandal. Streit found "covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting and the most flagrant abuse of the athletic scholarship." More than 30 years later, the bill of particulars has hardly changed...