Word: rockingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fully 5,500 people showed up to hear Darrell speak. That was a jaw dropper, but he regularly draws crowds of more than 3,000. "God is using this tragedy to wake up not only America but also the world," Darrell told a Christian group in Little Rock in November. "God is using Rachel as a vehicle. If I believed for one second that God had forsaken my daughter or that he had gone to sleep or that he wasn't aware, I would be one of the angriest men in America...
When Dana Giacchetto was flying high, they called him the rock-'n'-roll broker. His client list was more Melrose Avenue than Wall Street: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Matt Damon, Michael Ovitz. For the club-hopping Giacchetto, the line between client and buddy was as thin as a supermodel. He put DiCaprio up in his SoHo loft and vacationed with Courtney Cox's family. He had a knack for wrapping himself in buzz. In a New York Times profile of Ovitz last May, Giacchetto dropped names the way most brokers drop bad stocks. "Get me Michael!" he reportedly shouted...
...RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE The Battle of Los Angeles (Epic). Because Tom Morello--who can make his guitar sound like a harmonica, a pair of turntables or a street uprising--is the most thrilling guitarist in rock today. Because rapper-singer Zack de la Rocha mixes poetry and polemics into song lyrics that would do Chuck D or Bob Dylan proud. Because in a year in which a riot of rockers copped beats from hip-hop, no other band made the rap-rock union resonate with such ferocity and intelligence...
...NINE INCH NAILS The Fragile (Nothing/Interscope). Into the orgy of urgently escapist pop that ruled music this year, Trent Reznor dropped this monument to loneliness and psychic angst. A powerful and creepily beautiful rock-'n'-roll album, The Fragile brought hope to alienated youth everywhere...
...face it: most '60s rockers have headed out to pasture. But with a little help from his friends (Lauryn Hill, Everlast), 52-year-old Carlos Santana stayed alive by renewing the formula that once took him to the top: blues, Hendrix-style guitar work and chugging Afro-Latin rhythms. Rock history, written by lightning fingers...