Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crooner was apparently intended to be a program for a New Year's Eve ball, incorporating Latin jazz standards such as "Mas Que Nada" and two or three pop favorites ("Beat It" and "Only You") into a group of songs for dancing close and reminiscing. Unfortunately, Nascimento often sounds like a wedding singer gone bad, and it's hard to sit through his version of "Beat It" with a straight face. The romance of the Spanish lyrics might hold your interest through the first song or two, but then the '80s elevator-music feel begins to shine through...
...Genesis, coincidentally another group of rockers celebrating their 30th anniversary, features the eclectic musicians (mainly featuring Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford) from the '70s, '80s and '90s, but where Led Zeppelin could be considered power rock, Genesis is best categorized as power pop. On Turn it On Again, the band appears in all its past glory, selecting its best outings from nine studio albums spanning 25 years...
When I was in the ninth grade, I took a music history class especially designed for those of us who liked to listen to music but had no business playing it. Our teacher was a smart, enthusiastic 20-something with an unholy knowledge of pop music trivia and lyrics from musicals. Needless to say, we loved her. The highlight of the class was the week we watched "West Side Story" on videotape and discussed the musical's roots in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," the socially conscious message of the show and the Boston background of composer Leonard Bernstein...
...perfect as the moment seemed, it wasn't quite at the imperial level that Jiang aspires to. Even in Beijing, where the WTO celebration was as choreographed as the first act of Cats, the zip and pop of a truly great moment was missing. Ordinary citizens weren't glued to their television sets. And the triumphal speech to his fellow Chinese--the grand gesture or unforgettable sound bite that would lock in the historic moment--never occurred. But such policy blahs don't mean that Jiang won't one day pull off that kind of Maoist dazzle...
...girl suddenly disappears, as Bush says that "a dangerous world still requires a sharpened sword." When he promises a "foreign policy with a touch of iron," the girl reappears, reaching out her hand to a uniformed arm. While the ad was produced well before the Governor flunked that geopolitics pop quiz, it clearly reflects a central campaign concern: that Bush might be seen as a lightweight, a silver-spoon child of privilege without the heft to deal with the presidency. The disturbing images, the edgy music in a minor key, the unsettling language aim at one point: No mindless frat...