Word: poppingly
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...music, and a few years later the trio recorded "Puff the Magic Dragon." This children's song, with its fanciful friendship and lilting chorus, would dominate the Top 40 and be sung in summer camp forever after. To the cognoscenti, this was a drug song in pop-music code: Puff, drag-on, "little Jackie Paper." Hipsters began referring to the group as Peyote, Pot & Maryjuana - though Yarrow consistently denied the hallucinogenic connection. He was even more adamant in condemning Paul Shanklin's 2007 anti-Obama burlesque, Barack the Magic Negro, which Yarrow called "shocking and saddening in the extreme...
Times, they change, in pop music. Dylan went electric; the folk songbook was nearly depleted by raids from the myriad groups that sprung up to grab the gelt; and Peter, Paul and Mary disbanded in the early '70s to pursue solo careers. At the end of the decade the group reunited, "after their rejuvenating years of personal re-definition" (their website's words). Though they kept recording new material, they were essentially an oldies act, appearing with other antique pop-folkies like the Highwaymen and the Brothers Four at concerts that PBS liked to air in prime time during every...
...probably wrong. Pandemic influenza is notoriously complex - and it changes all the time. The best defense is wisdom. But because of the way our brains are wired, we tend to overestimate how well we understand the risks. Check your own IQ (influenza quotient) with our nifty Pandemic Pop Quiz. #mediaContainer {width:525px; border:1px solid #ccc; border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px ; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; margin:15px 0; overflow:hidden;} You will need to install or upgrade your Flash Player to be able to view this Flash content. Also, Javascript must be turned on. /*quiz developed by Grace...
...think that after 27 years in the Square, if they really wanted to have another great ice cream store, they would’ve contacted me,” he said. “They would’ve given me a ring because this is a mom and pop, super-clean operation.”Harvard may have also offered J.P. Licks a preferential lease on the prime real estate. Petryk said his monthly rent was about 20 percent lower than the rent on similar buildings in the Square not owned by the University.James Gray, associate vice president...
...said that he is running for marshal because he has enjoyed serving his peers as a member of the Undergraduate Council and enjoys putting on events, he also said that it is a running joke among his friends that if he is elected, he will bring pop singer Shakira to Harvard Yard for Class Day. So far, campaigning in the marshal race has remained minimal, with some candidates publicizing their candidacies by sending e-mails to their fellow seniors. Both Hanger and Britt said that they have not yet sent any campaign e-mails but plan to send e-mails...