Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raves mirror the national disenchantment with the traditional, the conventional, the status quo -- whether in politics or pop music. Their appeal lies in their quirky spontaneity and vaults of rhythmic rapture. By singing the body electric in a blizzard of refracted light and pumped-up sound, ravers embrace a collective catharsis -- and sometimes one another -- in a cuddly bear...
...what you need, if you want to change the status quo, is not one Perot but many...
Mainstream pop success is a difficult cross to bear for avant-garde hard rockers. Their stock-in-trade is assaulting the status quo and ridiculing pop culture, yet suddenly their songs are mixed into Top 40 radio's diet of fluffy, fast-food hits. Bands such as Metallica and Nirvana have scored their share of chart toppers recently without being perceived as "selling out." Now, two years after their critically acclaimed, breakthrough album The Real Thing, the San Francisco-based quintet Faith No More are the latest heavy- metal hitters to arrive at this crossroads...
...predictable theories for what it all meant. Bush's handlers said Perot's exit helped the President most because a majority of Perot followers were self-described white conservatives. Another view, supported by last Friday's quickie polls, was that those conservatives walked away from Bush's "failed, status quo" presidency and will turn to Clinton as the only remaining nonincumbent agent of change. This analysis (spun to negate the Democrats' earlier hope that Bush and Perot would eventually lock themselves in a death grip that would carry both over the precipice) holds that Perot's followers were, like Clinton...
Instead, hooks remains faithful to a vigilant progressive politics, asking what price Black Americans must pay to have the system work for them. Calling the hearings a "reinscription" of the status quo, hooks sees Thomas as "fundamentally allied with...the interests of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy." To hooks, Thomas' being Black does not in itself make his appointment to the Supreme Court a triumph--rather, his complicity in a racist, sexist power structure makes the appointment a setback for those interested in real social change...