Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem quite as funny--maybe it's harder to laugh at something that happened in your own time. Then again, with articles such as "Homeless Catch on to 'Grunge' Trend" (describing a man without a job: "'Right now, I'm on disability,' he says, echoing the anti-mainstream, 'no sellout' ethos of bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana") and "New President Feels Nation's Pain, Breasts," maybe...
Eggers got his start at Might magazine, which was famous for such cover stories as "Are Black People Cooler Than White People?" In Might's "Sellout issue," every page of the magazine, including the cover, was sold to a corporate sponsor and the record reviews were written by record company PR departments. When Might folded after 16 issues Eggers was courted by mainstream magazines and spent a year as editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that...
...Senators defeated the Red Wings for the second time in five days, beating the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions 4-1 yesterday in front of a sellout crowd of 18,500 at the Corel Centre...
Rock star David Bowie performed for a sellout crowd last year on Wall Street, and now dozens of impressed entertainers want to play that venue. Don't look for them in any concert hall, though. The show consists of a financial maneuver that, if bankers get their way, will explode in popularity in the next year or two. It could spawn a new type of mutual fund that fans might find hard to resist...
Lloyd Webber always aimed for more than that, though critics weary of his incredible success have long dismissed him as a hopeless pop sellout. Whistle Down the Wind drew predictably mixed reviews, and its future looks cloudy. Yet it marks a step in the right direction for Lloyd Webber. The story, based on the 1961 British film about three children who discover an escaped convict in their barn and mistake him for Jesus Christ, has a welcome modesty and warmth, a far cry from the chilly Gothic pretensions of Phantom and Sunset Boulevard. The setting has been shifted from northern...