Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rock the Vote" push to "Vote because it's cool" doesn't work either. Not only is it patronizing and superficial, it's just not true. The gang on "Friends" and the hipsters in music videos rarely hang out at polling places...
...been around for 25 years," says vice president Joseph Ryan. "We sacrificed margin to maintain market share. I had my bankers call us stupid and dumb. But we're the only ones in the market now. I actually feel the worst is over. I can see rock bottom...
...missing from most fashion-magazine covers, replaced by movie starlets. She's all but gone from top advertising campaigns, beaten out by anonymous, awkward-looking teenagers. She has virtually disappeared from runways, her asking price too dear. Even rock stars don't seem eager to date her anymore. A little glamour has left the world. And so the world mourns, its makeup runny from tears...
Meanwhile, rock festivals like Lollapalooza, H.O.R.D.E. and Lilith Fair bring out hundreds of thousands of kids we would have once called hippies. These kids aren't self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...
...rich. He's powerful. He's turning 28, and this week SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS, no fan of the small gesture, will throw himself a birthday bash of czarist proportions. To help produce a suitable invitation, he called upon such Puffy pals as Oprah Winfrey, CHRIS ROCK, Ben Stiller, ELLEN DEGENERES, SAMMY SOSA, Magic Johnson, Tommy Hilfiger, Will Smith, MARIAH CAREY and many others who no doubt saw the merit in assisting one of the decade's most successful music producers. The eclectic ensemble vamped for a videotape sent to Puffy's illustrious invites, revealing the party's date, time, suitable...