Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free, hot breakfast offered each morning. At 8:20 last Friday, about 150 kids filled the cafeteria, talking about their favorite TV shows and eating their cereal and pancakes and drinking their juice and milk. The menu doesn't always please everyone. Ten-year-old Jennifer Silva would prefer Pop-Tarts or even pizza for breakfast. But she knows that if she misses breakfast at school, she won't eat that morning. And when that happens, Jennifer says, "I feel horrible...
...about once every ten pages, between the beer going down and the macadamia nuts coming back up, emerges a voice worth listening to. Out of a mind cluttered with pop culture icons and high brow trivia--James Dean, Lucky Charms, Cezanne--come the big big modern philosophical questions, refurbished with Nelson's own pessimistic twang. "Who the fuck am I?" he asks...
...fleeting brushes with stardom. A brief synopsis and analysis of these two encounters reveals American pop-movie stars to be a bizarre and varied breed. The inevitable products of mass consensus in popular tastes and superficial public whims, these poor souls venture out into the world either basking in the public attention which sustains them, or else fleeing from it in terror. In the end though, one realizes the absurdity in all this manufactured fame, the perverse incongruity of ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations...
...they will produce a 3-D film of themselves performing in a virtual environment. Piqued by the possibilities of a new medium, Old Guard rockers are seeking to reinvent themselves cyber-electronically. A foray into the techno-arts has not only revived but enhanced the career of once forgotten pop singer Thomas Dolby. Last year his Virtual String Quartet -- a 3-D imaging project in which people played computerized instruments in virtual space -- found its way to the SoHo Gallery of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Other performers, such as Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and Todd Rundgren...
There are endless text files describing sex with strangers and strange sex. There are photos and films and sounds (Girl in Cage, Women in Wet Clothes) to download that are usually found behind the curtain in the back of mom-and-pop video stores. There are personal ads of the ilk published in the back of swingers' magazines: WANTED TOPLESS MAID CLEVELAND AREA. One can order sex toys of the inflatable and battery-driven varieties, available via 800 numbers and direct mail. There are costumes (men's black leather harness with silver studs) and condoms, leather and rubber goods...