Word: phenomenons
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...women are forming bands in which the latter not only sing but play instruments and write songs too. Some tough all-female bands have formed that give a womanist twist to the raucous sound usually associated with all-buddy bands, but the more remarkable and successful phenomenon has been bands with men and women playing together. Very fine albums by the Cranberries and Smashing Pumpkins have sold more than a million copies each. Coed bands are also on the cutting edge: of the 10 groups named in Rolling Stone magazine as the hot bands to watch this summer, three...
...widow). Arrested Development's brand-new CD, Zingalamaduni, is smart, political hip-hop (one song deals with abortion). Says lead rapper Speech: "It's important to get men and women expressing themselves about issues together." Steve Yegelwel of Atlantic/Seed Records, a label with several coed bands, says the phenomenon is the start of a new era: "It's kind of like the beginning of punk...
Politics and morality often make interesting bed-fellows, and the Clinton administration has not been able to avoid this phenomenon. Consider Bosnia, Rwanda and North Korea. In one instance, Washington rattle saber in scabbard threatening embargoes, air strikes or outright intervention; in the next peace offerings are sent with ex-presidents, who dole out hugs and handshakes. And yet the seemingly ever-present spectre of a protracted military presence in Haiti looms large on the Clinton foreign policy horizon...
...Company for Relaxing at Home." Recently breaking Billboard's classical top 20 as well as Tower's classical top 10, this recording's success continues a trend in popular classical music which arguably started with the fuss over Henryk Gorecki's third symphony, and includes the more recent "international phenomenon" of Chant...
This new influence, along with the instability of the "[Ross] Perot Phenomenon" has the "capability to destroy the Republican party altogether...