Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aired live on HBO Sunday, Aug. 9. "Welcome to the Seiny workshop," he cracked to a sold-out house at an old haunt of his, the 250-seat Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, Calif., last week. After several years of the lush life of a sitcom phenomenon, is Seinfeld still funny in front of a microphone? That's the question he wants answered. The fans, however, seem less interested in having a transcendent comedy experience than in simply getting close to their cathode-ray idol...
...York City's latest avant-garde theater phenomenon tries to prepare would-be patrons with a set of ground rules: "1) Stand. 2) Dress down. 3) Look up. 4) Touch. 5) No rules." Here's why: the audience stands in a cavernous room for the entire hourlong show, while a dozen or so performers soar overhead. Suspended on wires, they swoop and twirl, climb the walls, bounce in and out of the crowd. There's wind and a rainstorm (you get wet), strobe-light effects and pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd...
...While changing the perception of drugs as a 'cool' countercultural phenomenon is essential, there's also a need to address the social problems that lead people to use drugs," comments TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Of course this ad will influence the white middle class, but how will it affect an inner-city black kid who can make $250 a week in a regular job but can make $1,000 a week selling drugs? Or the ghetto dwellers who turn to drugs out of despair at ever being able to change their reality? Ad campaigns can be an effective part...
Musical genres, like city streets, need names to make things navigable. Artists rage against categorization, but it's a useful tool to define the boundaries of a given phenomenon. Neo-soul is the best name to call the latest emerging genre. Simply defined, neo-soul describes artists--like song-stylist Erykah Badu--who combine a palpable respect for and understanding of the classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than...
...troubled by today's current cultural phenomenon that has parents passively stepping back and allowing their children to be force-fed images of sex and violence. To handle these powerful ideas, they need a larger reality than childhood affords. Are we so naive as to think our children will not suffer the consequences of these messages? MAURA C. WALSH Sierra Madre, Calif...