Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayor Xavier Suarez, one of the targets of rock and bottle throwing Monday night, spent yesterday meeting with Black leaders and residents of Overtown, a neighborhood of rundown, low-slung apartment buildings and trash-strewn vacant lots, just north of downtown Miami...
...deserved, but to call Dallas "the worst thing since the Black Plague" is going a little too far. Everyone likes to pick on you when you're down, and the Cowboys are at rock bottom. But the bad times are over...
...laugh at that bit of Princeton nonsense. "How can one quantify the worth of a Stephen Jay Gould?" I retort haughtily. "Isn't he worth more than some two-bit rock digger from South Jersey State...
Whatever the validity of this or that theory, the earth will not remain as it is now. From its beginnings as a chunk of molten rock and gas some 4.5 billion years ago, the planet has seen continents form, move together and drift apart like jigsaw-puzzle pieces. Successive ice ages have sent glaciers creeping down from the polar caps. Mountain ranges have jutted up from ocean beds, and landmasses have disappeared beneath the waves...
...well over a million copies in Europe and interested the intrepid Elektra in a U.S. release. All members of the same family, the Gipsy Kings make up a jolly band that combines the sly funk of salsa and the brio of flamenco with some of the blowout intensity of rock. The band does have mainstream appeal. The "adult contemporary" step-uncle of MTV, VH-1, recently chose the Kings' video of their Bamboleo single for its "Pick of the Week," and the band is hardly shy around sentiment. Its version of the French original that was the basis...