Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout his life, Zappa's music was both eclectic and uneven. At his worst he could be amateurish, as in the early Return of the Son of Monster Magnet. On guitar Zappa was no Eric Clapton, and as a band the Mothers were no match for Lou Reed's raw Velvet Underground, with whom they shared an in-your- face aesthetic that guaranteed zero radio play. At his best, however, Zappa fused two seemingly irreconcilable 20th century musical strains; his masterpiece, Absolutely Free (1967), is a dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else...
...inadvertently hilarious 1958 science-fiction film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, now re-made for HBO (Dec. 11, 8 p.m. EST), Nancy is trapped by a philandering husband and a cruel, cruel fate. Afflicted with ray burns suffered when she is seized by a huge space monster, Nancy is transmogrified into a murdering colossus and ultimately killed by a sheriff wielding a riot...
...expect to get it. Power Rangers is choppy, video-game-paced fare that has the feel of a cheap Japanese monster movie, circa 1956. The premise: five teenagers (three boys and two girls) are transmogrified mid-episode into spandex-clad superheroes who battle the vile forces of Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic witch. Through a mix of kung-fu acrobatics, pummeling and pouncing, the Rangers manage to defeat whatever band of clunky, plastic robot- cretins Rita enjoins to cause trouble...
JACQUES TOUBON WAS BEAMING. THE French Minister of Culture was informing a gala audience at the 5th Sarasota French Film Festival that the film they were about to see, Jean-Marie Poire's Les Visiteurs, was a hit of monster proportions. "The Visitors is the double of Jurassic Park," touted Toubon. "We are the best." At that moment, Americans in attendance had to be grateful that the U.S. has no government executive whose job it is to flack for Roseanne Arnold or Pearl Jam simply because their TV show and record album are at the top of the American charts...
...Hell Spawn "Rebel with a Bus Pass" 6. King Loser "Never a Thought" 7. Milkmine "Skelch" 8. Bikini Kill "Magnet" 9. Gaunt "No Hope" 10. Fat Day "Knute Rockne" 11. New Bomb Turks "This Place Sucks" 12. Element of Crimes "Delinquent Squint" 13. Universal Order of Armageddon "Flux" 14. Monster Truck 5 "Ain't Never Been" 15. The Lune "Giving Up" 16. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 17. Skinned Teen "Punk Rockest" 18. Conflict "These Colours" 19. Victims "Television Addict" 20. Thinking Fellers "Undertaker...