Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jurisprudence suddenly the hot new pop read? The U.S. does have more lawyers, many no doubt underemployed and hungry, than anyplace else in the universe. Probably, however, we have more accountants and termite exterminators as well, and they remain decently silent. Anyway, this year lawyers, next year civil engineers or professional bowlers. Or a heartwarming resurgence of doctor-nurse romances. In any case, the entire, ever wistful publishing industry now chases riches through barratry, the offense of excessive litigation. There is a cranked-out feel to most legal thrillers. Virtually all are blurbed as the work of the next Turow...
Series producer William Cran has assembled a mass of material with scholarly care and storytelling verve. Each episode is dramatically built, often starting with one key event, then working backward and forward from it. The historical medicine is enlivened with spoonfuls of pop-culture sugar. (In one old TV ad, Marilyn Monroe urges a gas-station attendant to "put Royal Triton in Cynthia's little tummy." Cynthia is her new car.) Not least important is Paul Foss's urgent theme music, one of the best TV scores since The Civil...
...America pop culture has always glorified criminals, real and fictional. Michael Corleone. Bonnie and Clyde. John Gotti. The current "gangsta" genre in rap is no exception, reveling in crimes and misdemeanors, drive-bys and lootings. And for one of its leading practitioners, Ice Cube, 23, crime certainly pays. His new album, The Predator, entered Billboard's pop as well as its R.-and-B. chart at No. 1 -- the first time a performer has pulled off that double feat since Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life...
...most ways, Deep Space Nine follows the familiar course charted by its predecessors. It is set in the same 24th century as The Next Generation and deals with many of the political situations introduced in that show. Familiar faces from older series pop up: Enterprise captain Picard appears in the pilot, and another Enterprise crew member, Miles O'Brien, has transferred completely to become chief operations officer for Deep Space Nine. "The synergy between the shows will become immediately obvious," says the other co-executive producer, Michael Piller...
...Movie Sound Track Should Be Accompanied by a Movie. The Leap of Faith album is a little masterpiece of gospel music, mixing the real thing (as performed by the Angels of Mercy, Patti LaBelle, Albertina Walker) with soulful tributes from pop acolytes (John Pagano, Wynonna Judd, Lyle Lovett). But the movie, like The Bodyguard, doesn't live up to the craft or fervor of its music. This tale of a tent-show evangelist (Steve Martin) -- he promises "miracles and wonders" while lining his pockets with the gullible hopes of decent people -- can't even take energy from Martin's holy...