Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closer we got to the moon during the Apollo missions, the more the public thought that anything was possible even though we weren't really landing on the moon," he says. "With AIDS, every step is just as exciting, though not as useful as the final answer...
...event in this frat-heavy college town. The members of Hootie, hometown heroes who made it big, have decided to join the festivities unannounced. The other acts are mostly smaller, local ones with monikers that evoke the names of long shots on racing forms--Cowboy Mouth, Gracie Moon, Treadmill Trackstar. So it's sure to cause a commotion when Hootie--a band that has sold 13 million copies and counting of its debut album, Cracked Rear View--suddenly shows up and starts playing at one of the dozen or so small festival stages. Says drummer Jim ("Soni") Sonefeld...
...massive ting, or tripod pot, in the first room, with its swollen bronze belly and deeply incised decoration. And when, in a nearby case, you see a late neolithic pi, or jade disk--a circle of translucent greenish stone with a hole cut in the center, like a harvest moon rising, whose austerity reveals its maker's deep understanding of its material--the notion of progress in art seems more than normally fatuous...
...some striking earlier examples. Witness the anonymous 13th century effigy of the Empress Chabi, wife of the first Yuan Emperor, Shih-tsu, better known to us as Kublai Khan. Did she look like that, this formidable dumpling? Who can know? But it's an image of detached power, the moon face framed in the magnificent red profiles of robe and towering formal headdress...
Instead, Natchez will spend fall and early winter crossing the United States, Germany, Poland and other European countries with his band and other ska groups, including the more widely-known group The Toasers. Official dates have not yet been set, and Moon is currently in the process of booking engagements...