Word: popping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail to carry Clapton's latest album to a level significantly above that of any of his other projects of the past 10 years...
...last spring, the council lost approximately$20,000 on a hastily organized and poorly attendedconcert by pop-folk artist Suzanne Vega
...Undergraduate Council's executive committee last night voted to ask the council to reconsider backing a concert by the British pop group Squeeze--only one week after the representative body rejected an offer to sponsor the show at a higher price...
Nevertheless, FEMA has become a convenient target for all the frustrations people feel. In the rural community of Awendaw (pop. 200), the Rev. Jonathan C. Roberts of the Greater Zion A.M.E. Church defied FEMA by setting up temporary trailers for his congregation -- on land where the flood plain is lowest. "They told me, 'You bring those trailers in here, we'll lock you up,' " says Roberts. "I told them, 'Meet me at the county line.' " Such confrontations have taken a toll on FEMA officials. Says relief officer Paul E. Hall: "No one likes to be called a jackass...
When their minds wander, they pop in the two-hour tape marked "September 29: Harvard vs. Brown...