Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Receivers: The third Garrett brother, John, a wideout, graduated last year. So Jason has had to turn to other targets. He likes to go to tight end Mark Rockefeller, son of the late Nelson Rockefeller Jr. The big Rock (he's 6-ft., 3-in and weighs 225 pounds) has caught 25 passes for 296 yards. Wideout Dave Wix is the other Tiger to beware of. He averages 15 yards a catch...
McFerrin counts classical music and '60s rock as his two major influences, but his vocal acrobatics and his undeniable soulfulness moved one member of the rap group Run-D.M.C. to call him the "beat box of all time." In Germany, where he found his first wide audience, his nickname is the Stimmwunder (Wondervoice). What McFerrin does ranges so widely, from scat to rock to jazz and off into the twilight zone, that any number of names can suit him. The "Body Electric" is what he calls himself, with some bemusement. Plain "terrific" will do very nicely...
...season's yuppie success thirtysomething. The two-hour premiere chronicles three decades in the relationship of a New Jersey couple played by Timothy Daly and Eve Gordon. They date in high school during the early '60s (Motown music on the sound track), live together as rebellious college students (psychedelic rock), marry to satisfy their parents and eventually divorce. The bouffant hairdos and nerdy wisecracks lend fun to the flashbacks, but Daly and Gordon face such predictable life crises that one might be reading a textbook on the generic baby boomer. Almost Grown will not reach maturity until it addresses more...
...weeks Algerian workers had staged wildcat strikes at state-owned enterprises, including Air Algerie and the Post and Telegraph Service. Last week the growing anger over high prices and unemployment exploded into the worst riots to rock the nation since it won independence from France 26 years ago. For three days gangs of youths rampaged through Algiers, attacking government buildings, supermarkets, foreign airline offices, restaurants and nightclubs. On Friday some 6,000 demonstrators chanted Islamic slogans...
...styles of the songs cover the entire spectrum of rock history. At one end is the droll "I Could Have Stood You Up," featuring Jordanaires-like "bop bop" vocals in the background, Chuck Berry sideman Johnnie Johnson's rolling piano in the foreground and whimsical lyrics like "My shoes walked down the street/Only trouble is they weren't on my feet." At the other end is the funky swagger "Big Enough," which plays with tricky tape loops and loud bass and drums...