Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain call only when the fans won't let up. He has spent almost his entire pro career working for tactician-manager Tony LaRussa (who makes decisions based on numbers crunched in his dugout Macintosh Powerbook), but McGwire doesn't need the coach's signs. His job is hit rock with stick. He is more elemental than even Ruth or Cobb. He is refusing, for now, to sit down with most media, even charming, likable media who dressed really nicely to meet him last week...
Challenging the stereotype of Indians as uncompromising conservationists, more than 200 individual Navajo landowners have quietly leased 1,440 acres to Hydro Resources Inc., an Albuquerque company that plans to mine uranium ore from a local aquifer (a layer of water-bearing rock). The company has promised a lucrative payoff: more than $40,000 for each property it leases, plus royalties as high as 25% on the sale of the uranium ore. For some Navajo landowners that could translate into more than $1 million a year--a nice paycheck anywhere, but especially in a region with double-digit unemployment...
...Lloyd Webber's most inspired choice is his new lyricist, Jim Steinman, the veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over...
...share a secret. Take Rancid's strong new album, Life Won't Wait. Rancid is a band that, in its songs, inhabits a tough, gritty world of drinking, joblessness, back-alley drug deals and disillusioned immigrants; a world where corporations crush workers, governments lie to their citizens, and punk rock offers one of the few paths toward salvation. The songs on the California-based band's new album have names like Bloodclot, Black Lung and Cash, Culture & Violence; the guitar work is raw and roaring; and the quartet's two singer-guitarists, scraggly-voiced Tim Armstrong and bellowing Lars Frederiksen...
...maniacally fine performance, adding a sentimental riff here and there. Russo, looking remarkably unpregnant for someone who gives birth at the end of the movie, is sweet. Jet Li is magnificently creepy as a strong-and-silent, impeccably elegant villain. Alone among the principal supporting actors, Chris Rock, normally so funny, fails to fit his role as Murtaugh's young cop son-in-law. His edgy, larger than life comic persona makes Rock look like he is intruding on someone else's shtick...