Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nintendo game soundtracks; the rest consist of playful riffs repeated until they grow mesmerizing, or just irritating. The brilliance behind Doktor Kosmos, which shines through in only three or four songs, is that you don't turn it off sooner. It's the great accomplishment of mindless muzakians and pop drum machine artists everywhere that you find yourself guiltily listening to "Don't Look at Photographs" or "Holiday" one more time...
...word "bubblegum" has stuck to Mariah for much of her career. In particular, the last few months of Lilith worship have opened up bounteous opportunities for ridiculing her brand of breezy pop. Sure, she will never touch a Joan Osborne or a Cassandra Wilson for innovation or craftsmanship, but she is just as capable in her element as Jewel or Sarah "I-will-remember-you-will-you-remember-me?" McLachlan are in theirs. Back off, you coffee-shop snobs...
Chains seem to have taken over everywhere, wiping out the small mom and pop stores that actually gave a place character. In towns where there are no community groups to protect the nature of place, developers have gone wild building long, developed strips of fast food chains and car dealerships. Real estate values can show that people are not attracted by this kind of rampant commercialization...
...what a small word we live in--a global village predicated on common ideas and linked by those telecommunication networks that are always being bragged about on television. But far from reflecting worldwide esprit de corps, Madrid merely reflects the struggle between declining Continental traditionalism and new-fangled American pop culture, a struggle which the New World is rapidly winning...
...explosive that when thrown in the path of an enemy, quickly spits out seven "buttons." Each of the buttons, which fly up to 20 ft. in all directions, is linked to the mine with a superthin trip wire. One pound of pressure on any wire causes the mine to pop up about 4 ft. and explode. The Special Forces have 16,000 of these devices and want to keep them. "They can be the difference between life and death," says a Pentagon official...