Word: melon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consisting of Kowalczyk, drummer Chad Gracey, bass player Patrick Dalheimer and guitarist Chad Taylor, the Pennsylvania band Live is touring with Big Audio Dynamite, Public Image Limited and Blind Melon on MTV's 120 Minutes national tour. The band, whose oldest member is 21, has been playing together since they were all in junior high. Now they've got a hit album, Mental Jewelry, and a slot on MTV. And they're getting ready to tour Europe and then record again. Think about that when you put on your graduation robe and a funny hat and pick up your degree...
According to McGeoch, PIL tries to give the concert audience "value for money." In this year's tour, that value comes is providing a package that includes Big Audio Dynamite II, Live and Melon. The show hits Boston on April...
...this time of year, fields in the Imperial Valley, which straddles the California-Mexico border, should be bursting with ripe melons ready for shipment to markets around the U.S. Instead, 95% of the fall crop has been lost and much of the rest lies rotting on the vine. Harvests of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, citrus fruits, table grapes, sugar beets, carrots and cabbages are threatened as well. Total crop losses in Imperial County and nearby Riverside County have already reached $90 million. Says melon grower Ben Abatti, who has been farming in the area since 1956: "It is total disaster...
...effective native predators in California, and pesticides are largely useless against it. If it continues unchecked, Imperial Valley could be put out of business for months. That could cause an estimated $200 million in farm losses by spring and higher prices at the produce counter. The wholesale price of melon has tripled, and by one reckoning, the average cost of a head of lettuce in a supermarket could go from $1.19 to about $1.50. In some areas, these foods may be in short supply...
...center of it all is the 120,000-sq.-ft. casino, a space as defiant of convention as it is of taste. Dumont has spurned the dark burgundies and jangling reds of most gambling halls in favor of a color scheme heavy on violet, turquoise, melon and, of course, bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down...