Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing in cyberspace. More than 100,000 copies have been downloaded by software developers eager to try out the new language, which promises to make sending programs across a computer network as easy as sending E-mail or pictures. Hundreds of little Java applications (dubbed "applets") have started to pop up on the World Wide Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet. One site lists more than 700 working Java applets--each only a mouse click away--that generate everything from small dancing cartoon figures and steaming cups of coffee to knock-offs of such games...
...decades. Gospel, with its roots in the blues, was once considered too earthy to perform in church; the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar came out way back in 1970; and Christian diva Amy Grant has been racking up Grammys and gold records for years with her lite-FM pop. But younger Christian performers are now borrowing from a wider, more modern array of musical styles--such as alternative rock and gangsta rap--in an effort to create music that can appeal to a generation raised on Nirvana...
...working. Fewer than 200 radio stations around the country played Christian pop 10 years ago; now there are more than 500. According to some estimates, the sale of Christian pop concert tickets and record sales generated between $750 million and $900 million in revenues last year. Fans are young and old; many are religious, but some just like the music. "There's more money and better distribution than there was two or three years ago," says Billy Ray Hearn, chairman and CEO of EMI Christian Music Group. "We're reaching more audiences through mass marketing at Wal-Marts...
...Christian pop industry is also starting to produce some genuine stars--performers who are making an impact not just in religious-music circles but in the secular world as well. In part this is due to the fact that last year Billboard magazine's SoundScan system, which measures album sales nationwide, started to take into account purchases at Christian bookstores--where 85% of Christian pop albums are sold. As a result, pop crooners such as Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith, both veteran performers in the world of Christian music, saw albums they released in '95 climb higher...
...MOVIES ALWAYS MAKE ME cry. Isn't that how the old pop song went? For a hundred years, moviemakers of no special talent have known that the simple act of putting a pretty thing in jeopardy--tying Sweet Sue to the railroad tracks, killing off Bambi's mom--will win an audience's hot tears and huzzahs. Sentiment, a human feeling or failing, is honorable; the uses to which it is often put are not. But that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing...