Word: popped
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Imagine that the chirpy pop singers New Kids on the Block (now defunct) were all pretty, young British women. Hold that rather perverted idea and you've got the Spice Girls, an all-female pop-vocal quintet out of London. Their debut CD, Spice, has topped the charts in Britain and captured audiences in France, Italy, Japan, Australia and almost every other country where there are young girls and young boys who like looking at young girls...
...phenomenon is not limited to small-town America; we are feeling similar effects of "progress" here in Cambridge. Local "Mom-and-Pop" stores are in precarious situations at best. Last year we watched Elsie's shut its doors. The Grolier Book Store was in grave danger of closing...
...crowd was looking for generic power chord fodder in Goldfinger's performance, then its anticipation was satisfied. The band's ska roots were watered down to the point that the ska-based guitar rhythm would pop up every so often, as if it remained a vestigial part of the band by failing to make a musical statement. Consequently, the noisy uniformity of the music washed away the lyrics into inaudible oblivion. Unbelievably, however, the audience continued to eat up the performance as they threw themselves at each other and jumped along to the drum rhythms...
Critics say this is an attempt to get pop music-loving kids to smoke. "Ninety percent of smokers began before age 18," says Brian Ruberry, spokesperson for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "As FDA rules take away more weapons, tobacco companies need to find a way to reach kids...
While Green Bay (pop. 96,000) and Wisconsin count the Packers as chief among their blessings, the feeling was not mutual until very recently. Green Bay? Too cold, said N.F.L. players. Too isolated. Too white. Too old. "Coaches used to threaten us," says White. "Shape up, or we're shipping you to Green Bay." Lost on some people are Wisconsin's other blessings: the pride in workmanship that links towns (Oshkosh, Kohler, Wausau) to products, the ingenuity that created the democratic charter of the Packers, the loyalty that keeps Lambeau Field sold out through thick and thin, the spirit...