Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took 39 years, but at the age of 74, Cheddi Jagan finally made it. Long an avowed Marxist, Jagan has been contesting elections in the South American nation of Guyana (pop. 751,000) since 1953, when it was a British colony. He claims to have won several but says he was kept from serving out his mandates by British or American CIA machinations or by vote fraud. Last week he won yet another vote, and this time the loser, President Desmond Hoyte, urged Guyanans to accept the result and allow Jagan, who now supports free-market policies, to become head...
...staying power, there are signs that rap's primacy may already be getting its first serious challenge. The early warnings are flashing in England, which is second only to the U.S. as a hothouse for the care and nurturing of pop culture. Remember this name, and don't get it confused with Ravi Shankar's greatest hits: ragga. It sounds like reggae on mega-vitamins, bulked-up and bass-pummeled, and it has its origins both in the Caribbean and in an aggressive black awareness. The music is punchy, insinuating and prime for export. Those dreadlocks in Tokyo may stay...
...Between" also has an uplifting pop feel to it. With bright horns in the background and a fast beat, Merchant entreats the listener to move beyond life's troubles and enjoy its fruits. "Till you drop that heavy baggage you're dragging behind/ There won't be room for us to both go on this ride...
Lonelier and less literate. Books will almost certainly become a more elitist and rarefied art form. The common currency of pop culture and public discourse will be the quick-cut, in-your-face style of TV sitcoms and music videos. "The visual image will be familiar, more communicative to people. But at the same time, there will be a general humiliation of language," says Neil Postman, chairman of New York University's communications department. Our connection with the real world may grow ever more tenuous as images increasingly supplant words and symbolic gestures overwhelm rational argument. The portent is ominous...
...sensory stimuli grew, the very notion of "high" art began to be questioned. The new cultural icons, including pioneers like Elvis and the Beatles, were immediately accessible and understandable. Even while it splintered into different subgenres, rock music spread around the world, dominating record sales and the airwaves. Pop culture's frenzied quest for the new and the shocking continued to make traditionalists blanch, but the beat and the noise went...