Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY was tuned into Hootie & the Blowfish long before they became the South's answer to Pearl Jam. "I remember seeing Hootie play when only about 40 fans showed up," he recalls. Farley, who frequently reviews music for TIME, journeyed to Columbia, South Carolina, to investigate the roots of Hootie's sound--an assignment that entailed some bar hopping with the band. "It's regional music with a national appeal," says Farley. Music was an inspiration to Farley in his first novel, My Favorite War, to be published this summer by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. "It's not about...
...unheralded, alarmingly goofy-named Hootie & the Blowfish. When the band released Cracked Rear View, in 1994, it came across as something fresh and different, in large part because it didn't try to come across as anything fresh or different. Modern rock needed some new life, figuratively and literally--Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder's misunderstood-misanthrope act got tired about five seconds after Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's suicidally depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative to alternative, a straight-ahead zig to the posturing zag of the rest...
...when skilled, talented and long-suffering workers walk out the door. Once gone, they will be replaced by less talented, unskilled employees who won't put up with abuse. The quality of America's products and services will decline unless job conditions are improved. MICHAEL L. DAWLEY Pearl, Mississippi
...factor affecting contemporary architecture is globalization. "For the first time," he says, "an architect can build all over the world." He lives in London (though he spends much of the year in hotels), has an office in Rotterdam and runs an ongoing research project at Harvard that studies the Pearl River Delta, a rapidly emerging urban area in China. "It's clear," he maintains, "that you shouldn't just import; you should use the cultural potential of each country in such a way that it synthesizes with your interests. The MCA project is a beautiful project in that sense, because...
DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...