Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just the physical improvements are impressive. All the rusted metal detritus of battle has been swept up into neat piles waiting to be recycled into rail lines, girders and tools. Men and women break rock by hand to repave the highway that spirals down 7,000 ft. from the capital of Asmara to the seaport of Massawa. Workers trained by the grandfathers who built the railroad in the '30s lay reforged rails back toward Asmara; they have completed 26 miles in two years and cunningly restored the country's two 1938 Italian steam engines...
...meter is on the running-on-fumes side of EMPTY, and there's even an exclamation mark shining crimson on the dashboard. But Campbell, preternaturally polite, continues blithe small talk. "Is that band the Cult still together?" she asks. You confess that when it comes to '80s goth-metal bands, you're no trivia master. She continues, "I went for coffee with this guy who was in the Cult, and I was wondering if they were still doing anything." The needle dips further. You're close enough to the hotel. You get out so she can get gas. She drives...
...minority student just starting out at Harvard, with limited knowledge of the student organizations. Imagine wearing a bright-orange sign that says "I'm different," while entering the well-enforced glass doors of the Kennedy School's Littauer building, ascending the crimson-colored stairs and walking through two heavy, metal doors. As you enter the offices of this organization full of prospective senators, governors, ambassadors and even presidents, you are greeted with handshakes, smiles and talk of people you may have never even heard of in your life. As if the situation were not intimidating enough, you suddenly realize that...
...bands with names like Journey, not Megadeth. They were about finding love, mending relationships and, in Bon Jovi's words, keeping the faith. Most importantly, you'd see them on the charts and hear them on Top 40 radio. For a short time, this convergence of pop and metal was America's music...
...power ballad emerged out of the male rock of the '70s, from the heavy metal of Alice Cooper to the classic rock of Styx. The first power ballads to make it big in the '80s were hits like "Faithfully" (1983) by the five-man band Journey. But the genre didn't gain mass-market success until the mid-'80s. In 1985, REO Speedwagon recorded the classic "Can't Fight This Feeling." In 1986, Bon Jovi--with their big hair, rugged but soft looks and ordinary-guy sensibility--hit No. 1 with "Livin' on a Prayer." And a year later, Starship...