Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might be her moment. Her favorability rating is at 78% in New York City and at 65% statewide. Her bravura performance in the run-up to last November's elections, when her stumping and fund raising helped seal Senate victories for Boxer and New York's Charles Schumer, enhanced her star power. She has fully returned from the psychic sojourn that followed Clinton's August admission of his affair with Lewinsky. She exerts a strong influence behind the scenes, and her fingerprints were all over dozens of items in the President's budget, from a tax credit for stay...
...when the Deathmatch must be forced to an end, a stalemate ensues. Neither Morissette nor Manson ever wins because both performances failed to outlast the moment. Neither of them loses because the musical and visual display titillated the senses, pleasing the immediate need for entertainment and the escape from the daily monotony. Their only chance of being indelible, and ultimately their only chance at Deathmatch victory, lies in the realm of CD and radio where they must be relegated. There, they can seize the banners of creative intuition and expression to supersede the notion that their live efforts lack evocative...
...choice. Of course we have a choice, it's just that often the choice is between compromising either our ideals or our standard of living--and everyone understandably wants both. What bothers me, though, are those audience members who laughed in commiseration with Gibbons and forgot about him a moment after leaving the theater. Although they may not know it, they are Samir and Michael, who, after the smoke has cleared (literally), join another technology corporation and eagerly jump back into the rut they have temporarily escaped. For those who are willing to look unflinchingly in the mirror, I suggest...
These days, as a musician, you know you've made it when you have had a song featured on a WB teen angst drama. Stretch Princess are one of the lucky few whose creations have underlined a pregnant moment on Dawson's Creek. "Lost on Me" is that tune, one barely distinguishable from the rest of the now mainstream alternative ditties which grace their self-titled debut album. Kurt Cobain is perpetually rolling over in his grave for the embarrassingly bland rip-offs of the genre he spawned...
Public Library on Feb. 10. Golden was thefeatured author of the Library's and the HarvardBook Store's "Author Series," and it soon becameclear that his self-professed "Hollywood Moment"was the first of many...