Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essay lays bare how Madonna's supposedly taboo-breaking movie pigeon-holed these groups into lifeless stereotypes. Shedding a harsh light on the pop goddess, hooks reveals how much of Madonna's act is the "same old nonsense" in a pointy...
TERRY MCMILLAN'S BREEZY POP NOVEL WAITING TO EXHALE (Viking; $22) is one more battle communique in the war between the sexes, notable chiefly because all the condo-owning, Z-car-driving protagonists are black. True, these four good- looking, thirtyish women friends and the men who do them wrong, wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch...
What happened in that room that summer was, by popular reckoning, the beginning of rock: not its musical genesis (some folks believe that started with the 1951 rhythm-and-blues hit Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston) but its first seismic stirrings into pop apotheosis. Elvis Presley didn't sound like nobody then, and 39 years later, he still doesn't. He didn't simply make his legend, and he didn't merely live it. All rock-'n'-roll mythology started with him and was shaped by him. And for all its powerful sources in the cult of his personality...
...which she formed in 1985 with a few other well-connected Washington wives -- including Susan Baker, the wife of Secretary of State James Baker -- still supplies schools and law-enforcement groups with updates. "The message is the same," she says. "To be educated and aware of the messages in pop culture. I advanced this idea years ago, and I advocate it today...
...Princeton University giver can get his or her name engraved on the back of a chapel pew for $5,000. At Spelman, $10,000 to $15,000 will pay for a decorative fountain. The University of Houston's College of Optometry sells cushioned seats and desks at $300 a pop for its continuing-education courses...