Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they downsized expectations, reevaluated goals, and did the bureaucratic equivalent of the Patriots opting out of the NFL in favor of the Pop Warner Conference. The trouble is by doing that they are compromising our ability to punish those who are truly dangerous...
Anyone looking for more proof of the revival need only check out the history of Legend, a compilation of songs by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Sales of the album, released in 1984, have recently surged. The record has dominated Billboard's Top Pop Catalog album chart for an unprecedented 17 weeks, outdrawing such heavyweights as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Michael Jackson's Thriller and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...
...Asians are coming! The Asians have landed! Suddenly China is chic. So are the more familiar Asian totems of American envy and remorse, Japan and Vietnam. The U.S. may dominate pop culture around the world, but at home there is a brisk new breeze -- a wind from the East. In films, fiction and fashion, from Madonna's video to Fendi's new perfume (Asja), the future looms in the rising sun. Go, for a start, to the movies. Or stay away, as Asian-American activists urged audiences to do when Rising Sun hit the screens. The Sean Connery thriller, which...
...hamlet of Schaller, Iowa (pop. 850), a firm called Schaller Telemarketing has helped ease the loss of two of the town's three popcorn plants. Lucy Huldeen, 69, pushes bank cards and auto-club memberships from Schaller's offices, but she is no fast-talking operator. Says she: "I understand that the last thing people want to do sometimes is talk to someone who is selling something, and I try to sympathize...
...more unfortunate since the rest of this album is so well conceived and executed, covering country, blues and full-out rock. Standing Outside the Fire, a song about living life to the fullest, begins with a catchy guitar riff that would be at home on many noncountry pop albums. "Life is not tried it is merely survived/ If you're standing outside the fire," sings Brooks over a percussion break that sounds nearly African. In concerts and in interviews, Brooks is an intense, full- throttle performer, and the song manages to captures this bustling energy. The Night I Called...