Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rain washed many of the posters away [yesterday]," O'Mary said...
...pretentious quirkiness without the platinum popularity to back it up can begin to feel a little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple...
...coming-out party. Three hundred guests streamed into Paisley Park to hear him perform. The show started with a recording of Martin Luther King proclaiming, "Free at last, free at last!" The Artist then took the stage to play Jam of the Year, from his new album, and Purple Rain, one of his biggest hits. The concert ended when he announced, "Hey, man, it's my wife's birthday, we gotta get outta here! Nov. 19! Don't y'all let us down...
...years of modestly sufficient rain and no crop-battering hail, prosperity seemed possible. But the winter of 1916-17 was arctic, and the next summer saw only 5 in. of rain. Crops and credit dried up, farmsteads failed. Even today a curious visitor has no trouble finding the husks of homesteaders' abandoned houses, some with clothes still in closets and perhaps a hopeless account book yellowing on a kitchen floor...
...author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would have found himself in Montana by 1908, driving fence posts with aching city shoulders and checking the sky hopefully for rain...