Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell you what he said about Hillary.Chung: You can't.Mrs. Gingrich: I can't.Chung: Why don't you just whisper it to me, just between you and me?Mrs. Gingrich: "She's a bitch."As Mrs. Gingrich whispered the comment, the CBS tape continued to roll...
Cracked Rear View (Atlantic). Charged by rock 'n' roll but grounded in the blues, this quartet, based in Columbia, South Carolina, makes music with frat- party swagger, but the band's lyrics address such serious topics as the death of a parent and the racial implications of flying the Confederate flag. The rough, commanding voice of lead singer Darius Rucker, at left, makes it all work...
...boys told themselves, "Let's get on the radio, pretend it's John's basement and have some fun." Sometimes they fiddle with (or bollix up) the chord structure of the original tune. On a few songs they finesse the lyrics (George's vocal on Roll Over Beethoven alters "Dig these rhythm and blues" to "Dig these heathen blues") or finically polish the grammar (John's "You've really got a hold on me"). Some of their covers (Young Blood, Johnny B. Goode) sound sluggish, anemic next to the originals. But Paul's raveups -- his countertenor superscreaming on Long Tall...
What other 19th century novel that aims to teach girls conventional morals and decorum has been so enshrined in the feminist honor roll? In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir recalls it fondly; of course, she identified with the bold, artistic Jo. In a 1983 essay, feminist Nina Auerbach suavely co-opts Alcott, concentrating on Marmee's counsel against materialism and Jo's determination to be unconventional...
Like butterflies or Apollo rockets, the careers of rock-'n'-roll superstars typically have multiple stages. In the first, the rock star sings powerfully and touchingly about the sweet pangs of adolescence and the seemingly endless , wait for adulthood. In Stage 2, the rock star screeches churlishly about the unbearable pain of megacelebrity and the seemingly endless wait for room service at the Four Seasons. And in the third and last stage, the rock star goes on MTV Unplugged and performs all the songs from the first and second stages, only this time with acoustic instruments...