Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Natural Born Killers, the new outrage from Hollywood's most audacious auteur, takes a wild look at America's infatuation with twisted minds. The $34 million movie is so manic, so violent, so seemingly at one with the subject it satirizes, that Warner Bros. was reportedly spooked about a potential fire storm. Now the execs say they are feeling better. "I'm encouraged and excited," says marketing boss Rob Friedman. "The media response has been overwhelmingly positive...
...word hip to Henry Rollins, manic stage monologist and now the tattooed front man of the Rollins Band, a group sacred to many college radio stations. He winces. "Hip has become a lot of asses to kiss, a lot of places to be, a lot of parties to go to." Try it out on the poet Allen Ginsberg, who helped invest the idea with meaning in the '50s. After carefully distinguishing some current notions of hip from the outcast's lucidity that was his vision of it all, he lets loose. "An upper-bourgeois life-style con. A camouflage...
Coed bands are creating some of the most interesting music around. Frente!'s debut, Marvin the Album, offers up incongruously ear-caressing melodies on harsh subjects ranging from El Salvador to manic depression. Hole's Live Through This features primal guitar riffs and high-IQ lyrics by Courtney Love (rocker Kurt Cobain's widow). Arrested Development's brand-new CD, Zingalamaduni, is smart, political hip-hop (one song deals with abortion). Says lead rapper Speech: "It's important to get men and women expressing themselves about issues together." Steve Yegelwel of Atlantic/Seed Records, a label with several coed bands, says...
...rise of alternative rock has also fueled the boom in coed bands. Wearing their sensitivity on their sleeves, alternative rockers are probably the least testosterone-driven rock generation ever. Rachel Felder, author of a book about the alternative scene called Manic Pop Thrill, says these musicians tend to ignore gender. "Whether they are male or female doesn't really come into it. It's more like, 'Is she a good musician...
Mountains have finally stopped hailing down on Jupiter, and the debris from their catastrophic impacts has started to settle. Here on Earth, the information superhighway is coming unclogged as Internet users relax their manic electronic search for comet-crash pictures. And except for an observing session next week and another in late August, the Hubble Space Telescope is moving on to view other heavenly objects...