Word: radish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vegetables by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800). You can read it, with pleasure, as a supremely assured market still life (Jakuchu was, in fact, a vegetable wholesaler before he turned to painting full time). Gourds, melons, turnips, ears of corn and a shiitake mushroom surround an enormous forked white radish, lying as if in state on a basket. But as Singer points out, an educated 18th century Japanese would have recognized this as a parody of a familiar religious image--the parinirvana, or scene of the dead Buddha encircled by a crowd of his mourning disciples. You only need...
...coming back to music that's fun and upbeat, and younger artists are filling that gap," says Patti Galluzzi, senior vice president of music and talent at MTV. Three tot-pop acts have new albums: Hanson has just come out with Middle of Nowhere (Mercury); pop-grunge band Radish (led by 15-year-old singer Ben Kweller and the object of a bidding war) has issued Restraining Bolt (Mercury); and 16-year-old blues-rock guitar prodigy Jonny Lang has sold more than 150,000 copies of his debut album, Lie To Me (A&M Records), an impressive total...
...Like Radish and Lang, Hanson writes or co-writes its material. It's unfortunate, however, that all three acts have come up with immature, mediocre albums that are as much fun as a wet sandbox. Each album has its moments, but they are fleeting. The marvelous MMMBop is the only really substantial song on Hanson's album (it's one of two tracks on the CD produced by the highly regarded Dust Brothers). Some of Radish's tunes have catchy guitar riffs, but none of their songs catch fire. It is possible to simulate musical maturity; 14-year-old country...
...Before the meal, managers go out to the line. We make sure there are different colors, and then we garnish the whole thing," says Food Service Supervisor Edward A. Salerno. "We'll use orange crowns, radish flowers--I personally like purple kale...