Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Waterville (pop. 17,000), where Hathaway was founded 159 years ago--shirts for Union soldiers were made there--many of the 515 employees are bitter. They delivered on their promise to double productivity and now feel that Wachner is throwing them into the sea. Says Neena Querion, shop steward for the local union: "There are no other jobs here for our workers if Hathaway closes. It will devastate our whole community...
...case, some veteran musicians who haven't released albums in half a decade or longer may be poised to benefit from the current backward-gazing climate. These would include dance-pop butt wiggler turned contract-breaking auteur George Michael; gentlemanly crooner and former Commodore Lionel Richie, and punk poet Patti Smith. The trio have been lying low for reasons ranging from contract disputes (Michael) to personal problems (Richie went through a divorce in his time off, and his father passed away; during Smith's hiatus, her husband died). Normally, long-term hibernation isn't healthy for pop musicians...
...Seal1s voice, charismatic and craggy, revealed new depths in the low-key format, especially on his climactic rendition of 'Don1t Cry.'" Seal's show was not only a high point in his career and for Unplugged, it was also noteworthy for marking the comeback of folk sounds in pop. The musically eclectic Seal managed to draw from disparate strains of pop and weave them into a single folksy tapestry. Born in London to Nigerian parents, Seal admits that he began singing so his 3distant2 father would notice him. With his Unplugged show, Seal should win the ear of many more...
...singles have become a new arena for musicians to reinvent their work (rapper Busta Rhymes' single for his amusingly crazy song Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check contains three remixes of the main track), redo the songs of their idols (the Brit pop group Oasis, often accused of ripping off the Beatles, offers up a stale cover of I Am the Walrus on the single for its song Wonderwall) or perform out-of-character material (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony sweetly sing one of its hard-core rap songs on its single Tha Crossroads). Natalie Merchant, whose enchanting album Tigerlily...
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