Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story unfolds, though the queen, a contortionist, eels about renewing her spells. But the mood and pace of the evening progress with the intensity of drama. One reason is the music, which is not the traditional blare of fanfares and marches but a unified score of jazz and rock...
SINCE Prince achieved commercial success with the Purple Rain sound-track four years ago, he has been edging steadily away from its rock-like sounds. He has turned out an album every May since 1984, each with very diverse, direction-seeking tracks. Each has had sounds ranging from Minneapolis funk to samba to "house" music to the psychedelic...
Offsetting this intensity are ludicrously campy high school scenes featuring girls who look and dress like 28-year-old hookers. They taunt Carrie in a highly unfeminine fashion that might be more plausible if they were jocks abusing a classmate perceived as a sissy. Rock Star Darlene Love, playing a teacher, breaks character to step forward and smile in acknowledgment of the audience's greeting. The high school bits are apparently meant to be spoofs, except for a bizarre dance about slaughtering a pig, which turns out, inadvertently, to be the funniest moment. As gross-out entertainment, Carrie fails...
...group is cautioned about fires and littering, and then scatters. A few less experienced hunters trail along behind Bo, scaling a nearly vertical hill of fine, sliding sandstone and hard rock, arriving just below a cavernous outcropping -- a den. Browning is on his hands and knees peering into the dark crevices under the ledge, reflecting sunlight into the deep shadows with a mirror. He and a couple of Jaycees consult...
...Yumi Ando, Leslie Barbi, Jane Looney, Leean O'Connell, Lynley Ogilvie, Emily Ozer, Franny Peale and Tamsyn Seimon--will be ending their careers on an ambivalent note. They will not be able to measure themselves against Western competition, and they will have lingering memories of their loss to Slippery Rock in the Eastern Tournament...