Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Free trade found four unlikely champions last week when monopoly-hating grunge rockers Pearl Jam announced they would tour in June without using Ticketmaster. The band, led by Eddie Vedder, has been feuding with the ticketing giant for a year, claiming its service fee is too high. Band manager Kelly Curtis admits that staging concerts in some cities will be difficult but says, "The struggle has helped everybody...
...usually addresses. However, I feel that these books can be important tools in my class. At age 13 or 14,many of my students are beginning their first study of the Second World War. These books can lead to discussions about points of view, especially when youngsters have studied Pearl Harbor and the Bataan death march. Like Krauthammer, I do not want childhood to end too quickly, but at least these two books have helped me teach about some disturbing moments in history. Keep them out of the hands of seven-year-old, but don't disregard them entirely...
...bigger following. Irish vocalist Sinead O'Connor was featured in a 1991 show, and progressive rockers R.E.M. appeared later that same year. Other A-list musicians--Sting, Eric Clapton, Arrested Development--soon followed. Older performers went on Unplugged to revive careers, younger rockers to boost new ones. When Pearl Jam paid a visit in 1992, it was largely unknown; its Unplugged appearance was an important milestone in the band's drive toward megastardom. Aging soulman Rod Stewart's acoustic set spawned an Unplugged album that sold 3 million copies. Coming full circle, folk-rock trailblazer Bob Dylan, who enraged music...
WOODY ALLEN, MAYA ANGELOU, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Lenny Bruce, Betty Carter, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Woody Guthrie, Judy Holliday, Johnny Mathis, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Mort Sahl and Peter, Paul and Mary and countless other legendary jazz and folk musicians, poets and entertainers all have one thing in common. They made their name at a basement dive in New York City called the Village Vanguard. Last week what may be the oldest nightclub in America threw itself a 60th birthday party, and the joint was more jumping than ever...
Free pairs of plastic scissors for the project will be available at Pearl Art Supplies, 579 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Just be sure you don't get so excited that you run home with the scissors...