Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. LINDA GOODMAN, 70, writer; from diabetes; in Colorado Springs. Entertaining prose and easy-on-the-intellect pop psychology made Goodman's 1968 Sun Signs the first astrology book to scale the New York Times best-seller list, creating the mass market for mysticism that haunts us still...
...suggest that America is now in a period of dramatic transition, for there is overwhelming evidence that our present era is exhausted. This era has been characterized by the partially successful attempt at a liberal, amoral society where government strives to be neutral to specific virtues; in which pop psychology has advocated I'm Okay, You're Okay with its emphasis on tolerance and individual expression instead of virtue and responsibility...
...movie is considered so avant-garde is because it embraces "borrowing" from previous films in such an overt way. The image of Quentin Tarantino working in a video rental store, watching countless movies and storing up scenes to be replayed in his own movies some day has enchanted pop consciousness. Tarantino even plagiarises himself in one scene--a car trunk shot lifted directly from Reservoir Dogs...
...amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour around blue-footed boobies (a type of seabird) busily performing courtship rituals. Puerto Ayora, the islands' largest town (pop. 8,000), comprises a tranquil collection of quaint hotels, craft shops and seafood restaurants...
...taking a cue from the movies, releasing sound tracks for hit shows as a way of cross-promoting both the show and the musicians whose work is featured on it. Typically, these CDs include a version or two of the show's theme song along with a selection of pop numbers heard at some point on the series. CDs for the hit Fox shows Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place feature such musicians as Vanessa Williams, Annie Lennox and the alternative-rock favorite Urge Overkill. A 1994 CD spun off from the sitcom Coach contains, incongruously enough, music by James...