Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that contest, Quaker Rick Maloney grabbed an offensive rebound with five seconds left and sank a 5-ft. jumper to drop the Crimson...
...team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. "However, their lyrical content is not, even they would admit, particularly interesting." SAWtooth productions like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up are basically transmigrated American soul tempered down and slicked up into a formula that makes fashion as much as music. "A single really is a three-minute throwaway piece of plastic," says Stock, as if he's talking about a miniskirt...
FRANK'S PLACE (CBS). Tim Reid stars as a transplanted college professor running a New Orleans version of Rick's Cafe. No big laughs, but a stewful of colorful characters and laid-back charm...
Last week the Los Angeles city council, responding to complaints from the community, banned overnight sleeping on Venice beach, effective next year. Normally liberal Venice, says City Council Aide Rick Ruiz, has become "caught between its conscience and the impact the homeless have on everyday lives." A more cynical view comes from one of the town's few conservative Republicans, who says, "The liberals got rich...
...cultural instinct. Since income is often regarded as the ultimate measure of success, people want to demonstrate outwardly their earning (and borrowing) power. "This is a society that tends to judge people by the way they spend $ money. There's very little reward psychologically for being a saver," says Rick Hartnack, senior vice president at the First National Bank of Chicago...