Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back pain. The stock (RUBB) opened on NASDAQ at $5, yet closed last week at $3.75. Revenues through the third quarter ($1.97 million) nearly tripled last year's, but GABR lost $1.62 million. Still, Zanker is plunging ahead, selling franchises that cost between $69,950 and $134,000 a pop...
...have 900,000 machines already shipped to stores, and most of them are gone," says George Harrison, Nintendo's vice president of marketing. An additional 300,000 units (at $200 a pop) are en route from Japan, but "a week and a half before Christmas," says Harrison, "they'll be completely sold...
...film is the logical culmination of one of Allen's obsessions: the classic American popular song. After commissioning music for his first three movies, he decided that creating original scores was "such an ordeal" that it was easier to pop in recordings of Gershwin and Porter standards--the music he grew up with and, he admits, never grew out of: "My interest in music ended with the music...
Academic categories include "Dead White Europeans" and "Conjunction Junction," while pop culture sections range from "Bands that Rhyme with Zmead" to the more obtuse "According to Screech...
...pop music market where size is everything and obscurity means irrelevance, Arlo Guthrie--as one would expect from a subversive, pot-smoking smart-ass--breaks the rule. Nobody listens to protest folk anymore and if anyone does, it's for the kick of nostalgia rather than ideology. Arlo Guthrie is, indeed, obscure now: a figure more of recent history than of present radio play. But he knows it. He knows it, he reacts to it, and he second-guesses the embarrassment that might come from being long past one's prime. He mocks his own obscurity with a comedic sense...