Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says. "We lived in the same neighborhood." It is that ethnic Washington neighborhood that Pat describes in his memoirs as the setting for a kind of good-natured Catholic sitcom, The Battling Buchanans, with basement brawls and dinner-table debates over corned beef and cabbage. William Buchanan--always "Pop" to his seven sons and two daughters--was a successful accountant. But the model he set for his third son Patrick was not of green-eyeshade bookkeeping but red-blooded combativeness. In the basement of the Buchanan household, Pop Buchanan rigged up a punching bag and made each of his sons...
Responsible for the robust sound on the album is producer Brad Wood, whose portfolio includes Liz Phair and Veruca Salt. In fact, the grunge-pop arrangements on the album recall Veruca Salt and are no doubt attributable in part to Wood's production. Wood's insistence on precise recording allows the band to "sound like we're playing live in your living room," as Lane says...
...live band has led to some bad habits which surface on the record. The superfluous flourish on the drums at the end of the title track is one example. However, drummer Doyle deserves much commendation for his brilliant work on the album. His confident fusion of rock, pop and grunge styles makes for a fascinating complement to Lane and Furar...
...view--and what, no doubt, helps make her work so popular--is that, for the most part, the culture, not the parents, are to blame. Pipher points out that girls enter junior high school faced with daunting magazine and movie images of glossy, thin, perfect women. She argues that pop culture is saturated with sex; violence against women is rampant; and drugs and alcohol are far more accessible than they were during her 1950s girlhood in a small Nebraska town. "I don't think the past was idyllic," says Pipher, 48, a mother of two whose husband, Jim, is also...
...soprano, playing Carnegie Hall and Broadway. And then, in 1952, she became Alice on The Honeymooners. Meadows and co-star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender in a worldly wise...