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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether we are participants or viewers, there is one piece of common knowledge that unites us. We know that awards shows are basically for the performing industry to laud itself while ensuring self-perpetuation. In its execution, Boston's contribution to the awards phenomenon was not too different. The town's Music Awards even had famed personalities present to complement the Boston musicians and their fans. These celebrities, fixtures in award culture, are darlings propelled to notoriety by the coast-to-coast pop culture machine. Joshua Jackson, Duncan Sheik, Joey McIntyre and Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo were such...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: Kahlua Boston Music Awards | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...most prominent venues for slam in the U.S. (now that it is an international phenomenon) is the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe in New York City. Here, video and film producer Paul Devlin experienced slam for the first time. Electrified by the suspense and excitement slam brought to poetry performance, he determined to share the experience with greater audiences. Devlin, an English Language and Literature graduate from the University of Michigan, characterizes slam as a force of resistance against the often "tedious and self-indulgent" tradition of academic or published poetry. As he explains, a lot of people don't realize there...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, | Title: POWER POETS MAKE A BIG NOISE WITH SLAM | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...added, though that only white women seem to be subject to this phenomenon. Black women in America "were the only group that grew up in a culture where they were taught their bodies were theirs," she said...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Conway Speaks About Views of Female Body | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

What humans share with so many other animals, it now appears, is freewheeling homosexuality. For centuries opponents of gay rights have seen same-gender sex as a uniquely human phenomenon, one of the many ways our famously corruptible species flouts the laws of nature. But nature's morality, it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St. Martin's Press), by linguist and cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl, is to be believed. According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Side of Nature | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...success, a movie need only work for a few weekends. It doesn't need mythic meaning; remember that for years, the all-time box-office champ was The Sound of Music. But the Star Wars saga does touch a deeper chord. "George created a transgenerational phenomenon that's still inexplicable," says Williams. "Maybe it's in the rattling of our collective memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ready, Set, Glow! | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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