Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When instant gratification becomes a supreme virtue, pop culture follows. Siegfried and Roy, the ur-Vegas magicians (imagine, if you dare, a hybrid of Liberace, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Copperfield and Marlin Perkins) who perform 480 shows a year in their own theater at the Mirage, don't seem satisfied unless every trick is a show-stopper and every moment has the feel of a finale. In front of the new Treasure Island is a Caribbean-cum- Mediterranean faux village fronting a 65-ft.-deep "lagoon" in which a full-scale British man-of-war and pirate vessel every 90 minutes...
...weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from 50 in 1989 to 160 so far this year. At Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, 30% of spinal-cord injuries are caused by gunshots. Milwaukee (pop. 630,000) has responded like most cities: with more fear, bigger dead bolts and more angry debate about gun control and the breakdown of families. "We're a small enough town so that every death still really hurts," says Jeffrey Jentzen, the county medical examiner, who has watched the carnage...
...much angst or musicality as LuPone does from the anthems With One Look and New Ways to Dream. Lloyd Webber's music, as usual, has the lush extravagance and candy-box prettiness of Puccini, with themes repeated often enough to ensure their hummability. Though no single number has the pop allure of Memory or The Music of the Night, the score is probably his most coherent and effective...
...album reveals several striking things about Prince's career. Musically, many of the earlier songs reveal that Prince could not escape the banal rhythms of early-eighties pop. On the one hand there is the almost Van Halenesque synth and sequencer bass of "Dirty Mind" (and the groove on "1999" sounds suspiciously like "Jump".) The other early sound is the still-lingering presence of disco. Prince often verged on club music, but his best work owes more to other commercial styles like hip hop, funk and even rock. And just when the sound of drum machines and synthesizers starts...
...Hits/The B-Sides ultimately is a great album to own, for the novice as well as the experienced Prince listener. Strangers to the Paisley Temple will enjoy good pop and dance tunes that testify to Prince's versatile songwriting abilities and original ensemble work. Old fans will enjoy picking out the subtle developments in Prince's music. Let's see what the next 15 years bring...