Word: popped
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...when anomie and rage masquerade as meaning for most rock bands, it's easy to forget that progressive politics and music once resonated to the same social vibrations. That has never been a problem for Midnight Oil, the Australian outfit with a knack for turning its ideals into pop anthems for the common man. In the group's 1988 hit, Beds Are Burning, singer Peter Garrett warned: "The time has come/ To say fair's fair/ To pay the rent/ To pay our share...
...operated by African Americans. That should not seem surprising in a predominantly black neighborhood, but in fact almost all the grocery stores in the area are owned by Korean Americans, a situation that has become increasingly politically charged. "This is black people doing something for ourselves," says Mom & Pop manager Myra Allen of the alcohol- free shop, which was funded with $500,000 from Los Angeles' Brotherhood Crusade Black United Fund Inc. "We always talk about what we are going to do and never do it. This time we're doing...
...Angeles, where convenience stores are as common as palm trees, the opening of yet another one would normally attract little attention. But in the burned-out zones of South Central, where the riots began just over a year ago, the grand opening of the Mom & Pop community convenience store was seen as a major event...
...catchy TV commercials. More substantively, the embattled Russian President was helped by a Constitutional Court decision allowing him to claim victory if he gets only a simple majority in the national vote of confidence. Not taking chances, Yeltsin's team launched a final, Western-style media blitz, with pop stars rocking for reform in a Kremlin concert and a televised look at his modest apartment...
...MOST PASSIONATE COUPLES CAN BEcome the worst of enemies, as love and hate loop into each other like a Mobius strip. "I'll kill you if we can't be friends," ROSANNE CASH sings on her new pop-country album The Wheel (Columbia), and instantly we feel that she understands this love-hate connection, that she might even have lived it. "I'm not looking for your answers," Cash sings on the title cut. "Just to know the question/ Is good enough for me." The questions she raises have a kind of unanswerable rhetorical strength. She sings on the closing...