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...biggest problem with Powers' analysis of the power ballad, however, is that she thinks it is still alive, in the form of recent songs such as The Verve's "The Freshmen," Matchbox 20's "Push" and the Ben Folds Five's "Brick." Powers writes: "Recently...the meaning of the power ballad has changed as the age of heroes gives way to more conflicted protagonists." But these mid-'90s songs do not belong in the same category as the ballads of the turn-of-the-decade. In content, they are too angst-ridden...
...strokes; in Jackson, Tenn. Blue Suede Shoes, his anthem to teenage vanity nearly became his requiem when, as he was en route to a key national-TV performance in 1956, a car crash hobbled him and his career. Drinking binges followed, but so did songs--Honey Don't, Matchbox--that helped teach the Beatles rock 'n' roll...
...Matchbox 20. Lava. (Platinum...
...results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house. Today he pays it regularly and is even working off his debt. "Now that the country is in the hands of the rightful people," he says, "I'll sweep the streets of Johannesburg if they...
...unquestionably the office of a professor, with its academic in-jokes, student tributes, cluttered files and all, and its occupant is both the expected scholar and something else: the matchbox-collecting activist...