Word: rockin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liza Lopez, 16, is president of the 225-member City Girls Rockin' with Menudo fan club chapter in New York. Hers is one of several dozen groups in the city and 700 in the world. "They send you rules for a fan club," Lopez says. "You must visit hospitals and churches. There must be no gossip or fighting among the girls...
...Rockin' Jerry...
Their gravity is not without instances of whimsy. In William Hauptman's "Good Rockin' Tonight," an insurance man gives up his job to become a Presley imitator, convinced that since both he and Elvis are overweight, admire Cadillac Eldorados and like to stay up all night, he is bound for glory. Nicholson Baker's "K. 590" presents a university string quartet attempting to practice Mozart in a hotel "refreshment room" while the landlady vacuums and a pair of teen-age girls ply a soda machine with quarters...
...first member from Q.C. rushed into the gym shouting, "Q.C. don't like it, rockin' Harvard, rockin' Harvard." And that is exactly what the Braves from Hamdes, Conn., proceeded to do, routing the Harvard women's basketball team, 101-61, in their first game of the season...
KEEP THE FAITH--that's been the standard Springsteen line. But the racing in the street, pretty darlings and rockin' and reelin' which have filled life's empty spaces in previous songs don't quite suffice in Nebraska. Springsteen addresses this familiar and reassuring theme in the album's final song, but the track, "Reason to Believe," is not so comfy. Here the narrator distances himself from his own chorus: "Struck me kinda funny, funny yea indeed, how at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe." On this album, Springsteen addresses more directly...