Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first to admit it isn't for everyone. "We don't have any movie or CD reviews," she says. "No celebrities. No Cindy Crawford. None of the usual product-pushing, hypey stuff." Nor is Word bothered--as its writers pursue such burning questions as "Do rock-'n'-roll musicians ever actually experience sexual rejection?"--by the usual constraints of paper, printing or distribution costs. Word goes straight from editor to reader without sacrificing any trees...
...Tina Turner mannequin still needed a hair tease, and Madonna's gold bustier had yet to be mounted. But James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed...
Little Richard and Yoko Ono, though few on rock's current A-list, made it to the ribbon-cutting ceremony today in Cleveland for the $92 million Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a six-story glass and steel pyramid that may actually be worth the investment. "It's a very important museum," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is a lot more than seeing Bruce Springsteen's junior college poetry. It documents the history of an American art form. It's a great looking building that really captures the spirit of the music." The museum opens Saturday...
...there on the edge," Kesey says, "where it's beyond dangerous to your life--it's dangerous to your soul. And Garcia was on that edge for 30 years. It's like when the King asked Mozart why he drank so much, and Wolfgang said, 'Rock 'n' roll is hot, dry work.' Who are we to argue with such an artist? It's like arguing with Picasso because he was horny...
...said Fried's views would result in "decisions that would roll back the privileges in this society...