Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRESH TESTAMENT For those unfamiliar with new pop music, here is an excerpt from Blood Spilla, a Christian hip-hop song by William Branch...
QUEST FOR CAMELOT (May 15). The Disney formula may have become predictable, but is it imitable? Warner Bros., with its first all-animated feature, hopes so. The film's troubled production history and its wan trailer suggest otherwise. The power-pop score and name-brand singers may make the CD a hit, leaving Camelot as its own ancillary marketing device...
...tells you, "Put your head inside the piano." Now, truth be told, you don't really want to stick your head inside her piano. But this command, since it's being issued by pop-rock high priestess Tori Amos, comes with a certain amount of authority. You are standing in the living room of her comfortably airy Florida home (she also has a place in England). Her bookshelves are crammed with curiously eclectic, historically minded tomes, including Women of Classical Mythology and The 32nd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1910-'11. But the big black Bosendorfer grand...
...Fleming's work the extreme close-up is on Simpson, who, along with his partner, the more stable Jerry Bruckheimer, produced the hits Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and Crimson Tide before his 1996 death from an overdose. Aside from his obvious pop-culture smarts, Simpson's main contribution to cinema was his dictum that a blockbuster must have an easily described plot with three acts: explosive incident, impending crisis, triumphant resolution. His own story, however, was far more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson...
...limit on failure-to-pay penalties, might play well in Peoria but will cost the administration a total of $18 billion over 10 years. Some clauses sound downright dubious: Who wants to tell the voters that the Senate just handed the IRS 40 new executives at $175,400 a pop...