Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That process is already underway, prompted in part by the pathbreaking funk-electropop fusion of Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," which combined chants with a purloined Kraftwerk riff and computer pyrotechnics by Arthur Baker...
...Jonzun Crew are obviously as commited to futurism as they are to the beat. And though their chants ("We are from the Jonzun Crew/We are from your planet too") take on a cartoonish quality, they appear determined to try something new. Their Latin-infused "We are the Jonzun Crew," with its opening "Who are we?" draw obvious parallels to new wave weirdos Devo, who sacrificed quality to novelty early in their career...
...Ugly American image is largely forgotten. For one thing, though they spend more money and time in Europe than any other non-Continental nationality, Americans today are only a part of the tourist mass. As Atlanta Travel Agent Phil Osborne puts it, "The whole planet earth is traveling." Ten times as many Germans as Americans visit Italy each year; as many vacationers on the Continent come from tight little Britain as from the entire U.S. By contrast with the early days of jet travel, when tourists from the heartland came dressed in Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts or polyester pants...
...mission: to find out what all this imperial talk of crowning a Miss Universe is about. Making his way to the wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts out "It's not where you start. It's where you finish." Finally, Miss New Zealand...
...infection," Dr. Lewis Thomas, noted biologist and prize-winning author (The Lives of a Cell), observed recently. "I take it back." Through the heroic struggle of medical sleuths, most diseases faced today can be controlled, as some day AIDS will be. But microbes, which have existed on this planet far longer than man, show no signs of being unconditionally conquered. Amid the billions that exist harmoniously around us, there will always be some that become unexpectedly disruptive, mysteriously virulent. Said Thomas: "There is a lot more research to be done, not just about AIDS but into infectious diseases in general...