Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Independent, a weekly newsmagazine embittered from perpetual scooping by the campus daily, goes by the diminutive "Indy." Kind of like indy rock. Sort of. Except not cool. The Independent's news pages capture its readership with hard-hitting stories about charity galas, graduation in June and similar breaking news. The most recent gem by their editor-in-chief is a column entitled "Why I Like Chemistry"-one man's struggle against the forces of an evil concentration. Racked by an inferiority complex, the Indy's new recruiting slogan is "once a week is good enough." So that's what they...
...deeply concerned over the recent decisions of several final clubs to bar non-members from their events. This move will surely rock the very foundations upon which these noble institutions rest...
Chris Taylor mentioned in his article "The History and the Hype" that "no one in the computer industry wanted to rock the boat..." by confronting the Y2K problem. Well, Apple Computer did, and thanks to the makers of Macintosh, Mac users do not have to worry about the Y2K bug in the operating system. Just imagine manpower expenses for those who did not rock the boat--whole nations could be given a free computer for every citizen. WOLFGANG SCHUBERT Tien Mou, Taiwan
...December, according to gossip queen Liz Smith, she even sang along with the hottest track in underground clubland, a new remix of the '80s hit Tainted Love. It's a perfect anthem for her, now that she's over Clinton, focusing less on that awful Linda Tripp and getting rock-star-worthy hounding from reporters...
They broke up 20 years ago, victims of the apocalyptic burnout endemic to '70s rock bands. Now Strange Fruit is back for one fractious nostalgia trip to make a few quid and see if the flame still burns. This retro comedy, cannily written by The Commitments' Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, gives such fine British actors as Bill Nighy, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail and Bruce Robinson the chance to strut, scowl, sing some jaunty tunes (by '70s survivors Mick Jones, Steve Dagger and Jeff Lynne) and define what it means to be mates in a middle age the rockers...