Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MUSIC: "Summer 1997 seems like a good moment for Blues Traveler," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Grunge is gone, alternative is stale, and so the band?s harmonica-happy pop-blues may be just what audiences want. Alas, 'Straight On Till Morning,' the band's follow-up to the 6-million-selling 'Four,' is an aggressively mediocre album. The problem with 'Four' was that its two great songs were islands in a sea of banality, and the new record suffers from the same inconsistency, resulting in an album long on harmonica solos and short on melodies...
...triumph of capitalism over Soviet communism: we had Astaire and Marilyn; all they had were boy-loves-tractor pictures. As the battle of the ideologies was fought on movie screens around the world, the edifying drabness of Soviet-bloc films couldn't compete with America's glamorous, sexy, lilting pop culture. As Dana Ranga, director of the terrific documentary East Side Story, puts it, "A specter was haunting communism: the specter of Hollywood...
Foremost among them is that the peace and relative prosperity Americans are enjoying has made them less fearful of economic change. Gene Wilson, who has been a Chrysler dealer in Flora, Ill. (pop. 5,400), for 50 years, says he has become convinced of the underlying resilience of local economies. "When we lost the railroad depot years ago, we thought we were done for, but then we had an oil boom. When that ended, we thought we were done for, but then a shoe factory came. Then that closed, but we had companies like Minwax, Haliburton, Sparton horns...
...lovely that, in an age when pop culture dances with the dunces, someone has the mandarin urge to arouse and test his audience. Lovelier still when, as in The Pillow Book, text and texture meet so exquisitely. Sex is a visual art, Greenaway says, and writing is a matter of life and death...
...pop the real question: Will choosing Marriage Plus reduce divorce, as its supporters hope? Virtuecrats, conservative Republicans who preach no-cost family values, communitarians like Amitai Etzioni, and some feminists who suspect they suffer more from breakups than men do--all believe it will...