Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twice-told fairy tale. And look on its tellers, writer John Hughes and director Chris Columbus, as craftsmen who have taken the responsibilities of success seriously. They have acted not as caretakers of valuable property but as trustees of something millions regard as a kind of national treasure, pop-culture division...
With the cheerful cockiness that comes from being America's top recording star, Garth Brooks released his Christmas album, Beyond the Season, back in August. Brooks' homey compilation of such classics as Silent Night and What Child Is This quickly climbed the pop charts, remains in the Top 12 and promises to become one of those seasonal evergreens like Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas, first released in 1955 and still an annual best seller...
...1960s and '70s, the soul sounds of Detroit and Philadelphia were the glory of American pop. From the funk styles of James Brown to the fervid testifying of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, soul music was something you could not only hear but also feel: rhythm without blues, emotion without sentimentality. Then in the '80s a few big record companies discovered they could rack up sales by substituting hyperactive beats and overdressed arrangements for soul's honest impact. Subtle vocal stylists gave way to crooners; soul gave way to dance music, marketed mainly to black listeners. Even powerful singers like...
...disc reaches its emotional nadir with Sweetness Follows, in which Stipe ponders the death of loved ones, and Everybody Hurts, an anti-suicide lullaby. Clearly ambivalent about his and the band's new status as pop icon, Stipe seems to be mourning nothing less than a loss of innocence. "I'm sure all those people understand/ It's not like years before," he sings in Nightswimming. "The fear of getting caught/ The recklessness of water/ They cannot see me naked...
Sinatra, a five-hour CBS mini-series about the pop-music legend, sounded unpromising from the get-go. The Chairman of the Board's life story has been too public and too troubling -- fights with reporters, alleged Mafia ties, stories of boorish behavior -- to be much good as myth, and network TV doesn't have the stomach for a real expose. Especially not in a movie produced by Sinatra's own daughter Tina...