Word: popping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eugene S. Kim '92, who chairs the social committee, said the council lost a chance to bid for a concert by the pop group Squeeze earlier this year because it did not have a "blank check." Squeeze accepted another offer before the council had a chance to meet...
...music, is rowdy and rousing and raunchily uproarious, especially in a song about a gala party where saints and sinners mingle ("Richard III is comparing his hump with Quasimodo's"). The sole performer, as both Markham and his demonic adversary, is Dennis Locorriere, erstwhile singer-songwriter of the pop group Dr. Hook. His energy is boundless, his timing flawless, his depravity seemingly bottomless in this bewitching romp...
...thought to be an uninhabited bird preserve. Some of the perks claimed by East Germany's elite had a style reminiscent of ward pols in the U.S. Several Politburo members, for example, held the presumably undemanding post of "honorary member" of the Construction Ministry's "academy," for an annual pop of about $10,000. Another favorite ploy was to requisition scarce building materials for use in the construction of homes for children and other relatives...
...recent albums, Billy Joel, the consummate piano man, has ignored his Steinway in favor of a flood of catchy pop tunes and guitar licks. And as I headed for the Worcester Centrum last Friday, I wondered which Billy Joel would appear: the scruffy author of such classics as "Captain Jack" and "I've Loved These Days," or the polished performer of such Top 40 fodder as "Modern Woman" and "A Matter of Trust...
...simple enough to define an architectural landmark. American beauties like Monticello, the Smithsonian Institution "Castle" and Grand Central Terminal came to mind. These days, however, the definitions are becoming a little trickier -- and a little tackier. Supermarkets, drive-ins, car washes, neon signs and other exuberant examples of Pop architecture, mostly from the 1950s, are being touted for preservation, and some have already been set aside as historic landmarks by local and state agencies. "Many of the things that were taken for granted in the 19th century -- factories, mills, neighborhoods -- people now want to save," says Chester H. Liebs, historian...