Word: presley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite airlines' discounted fares--and an offer of a free pass for the King himself--to Memphis to celebrate Elvis Presley's 59th birthday, Boston's third winter storm in eight days forced Logan Airport to close all of Saturday morning, cancelling numerous flights...
...focal point of the Elvis memorial in the bedroom of Eliot House resident Margot A. McAnaney '94 is the afghan of the Elvis Presley stamp hanging on the wall...
...slump that lasted for most of the '80s, reggae is thriving in the studio, on the charts and onstage, spawning a host of hybrids and new stars as it fuses with rap, soul and pop. UB40's Can't Help Falling in Love, an infectious remake of Elvis Presley's 1961 hit, was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for the past seven weeks. Also in the Hot 100: Oh Carolina, by dancehall sensation Shaggy, and Bad Boys, a 1986 Inner Circle tune that has found new life as the theme song of the TV series Cops...
...chosen to look back on the '60s with a naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted up have all the reflective force of a Liz Smith column. In one bizarre passage, Morris fantasizes about showing Elvis Presley, whom he never met but imagined as a soul brother, around New York City -- brunch at the Four Seasons, dinner at Lutece, introducing him to Henry Kissinger at the Century -- and inviting him to write a monthly column for Harper's. It's hard to imagine anything more likely to have...
...doesn't care. "Sophistication is the subtle art of trading away all your gems for a bunch of junk," he says. During the '70s, while his peers were turning on and dropping out, Isaak -- who neither smokes nor drinks -- was in Japan as a college exchange student grooving to Presley's Sun sessions and trying to break into the movie business. His first credit: a walk-on part in a Japanese World War II film in which he played a lubricious American...