Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nightmares and midday flashes of terror. This, the aspiring pop music diva hadn't bargained...
...early age, she decided, to the shock of her parents, that she wanted to be a star pop singer. She began cultivating a trembling, soulful sound that eventually won her jobs in Paris nightclubs and made her a prominent voice on the Harvard campus, starring in musicals, soloing with a cappella groups and making appearances at jazz and rock shows...
Houtkin hits the keyboard, and prices for the stock of Cisco Systems, a volatile computer company, pop up on the screen. Fortunately, I'm told to ignore everything except two columns I can barely read anyway. One lists the prices that 47 marketmakers (firms like Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter) are willing to pay for Cisco. The second shows what they're willing to sell...
...with ^ you. There's just something traumatic when the college-radio band you love ends up as background music on Melrose Place. After the critical and commercial success of Jane's Addiction, Farrell wisely sought out new challenges. He founded Lollapalooza, the traveling summer carnival of music that showcases pop's avant-garde (this year it will feature such acts as Arrested Development); he made a low-budget feature film called Gift (out in limited release this year); and, along with former Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, he created Porno for Pyros...
...that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura is able to evoke a society in transition to modernism, folk culture mingling with pop culture, myth blending with imagery from the movies...