Word: popping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much more. Fat plaster cherubs, blue and gold velvet divans, pop-up televisions, living-room Jacuzzis surrounded by Corinthian columns and topped by mirrors, gold-painted toothbrushes, even bidets and brass DO NOT DISTURB signs. Boasts Trump: "You can go to London. You can go to Paris. You can go anywhere in the world. There are no suites comparable to the quality of these suites...
...face it: these days William Bennett is a pop culture hero. He's the drug czar when warring on drugs is cool; he's a family man when the American family is cool; and what's more, his youthful face recently graced USA Today's weekend magazine--and even if USA Today isn't cool, it's undeniably popular...
...sauces or curling asparagus tips. "It's always delivered just right," says Manhattan investment banker Harry Ozawa. He treats himself to home-delivered delicacies two or three times a week. Why? Because, explains Ozawa, it's so much nicer than eating pizza every night. At $125 or so a pop, it should...
...helped that we are a good band. But we had to be real good ; -- better than a white band has to be -- to convince radio and record companies to take the risk." There was a significant, and surprising, payoff. Living Colour's first album is still on the pop charts after a year, and after selling 1.5 million copies...
...also has a problem with the deejays. "The Top 40 stations won't play it," says Rudman, even though some rap (by Tone Loc, Run-D.M.C., L.L. Cool J and the all-white Beastie Boys, among others) has busted through onto the upper regions of the pop charts. Not all the young action is rap, though. Ziggy Marley, one of Bob's band of children, has got the gift and, to go with it, a light way with carrying a heavy torch. On One Bright Day, the new album he made with the Melody Makers (his younger brother Stephen...