Word: peacock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prestigious Mercury Music Prize for "Album of the Year" for their debut, Bring It On. They are a group of young musicians desperately attempting to avoid real world jobs (take note, seniors). And, ultimately, they are five chill guys--Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock--trying to play the music they want to hear...
...After the show, Ottewell answered our one lingering question: "Where does the name Gomez come from?" At University, Ottewell, Ball and Peacock knew a guy named Gomez who took extraordinary amounts of acid. One time, he took a bit too much and was expelled following drug-induced behavior. The guys found the story amusing and, explains Ottewell, "He had a name, we didn...
...prestigious Mercury Music Prize for "Album of the Year" for their debut, Bring It On. They are a group of young musicians desperately attempting to avoid real world jobs (take note, seniors). And, ultimately, they are five chill guys--Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock--trying to play the music they want to hear...
...their children. But if their sons are, in turn, to be attractive to other women--and hence keep the lineage thriving--it might help if Dad is a heartbreaker himself. Unfortunately, though, physical attractiveness is not a reliable guide to reproductive "fitness," as in health and wealth. Consider the peacock. Its gorgeous tail renders it highly vulnerable to predators, so any peahen with a concern for her sons' longevity should opt for a more modestly endowed mate. Trouble is, all the other peahens are fools for those huge tails and may turn up their noses at the short-tailed sons...
...Nash is right about the audience. This past November, the last time Fox ran four weeks of shockumentaries against NBC's Thursday-night lineup, it beat the peacock network in males 18 to 49 and adults 18 to 34. John Miller, NBC's executive vice president of advertising, promotion and event programming, admits that he went to Nash after losing those nights. "The Fox specials are edgier than what we're going to do, but they did very well going up against our Thursday nights," he says. Moreover, an hour of shocks costs only $500,000, about a third...