Word: sellouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizers of the Eliot House ice skating charity "An Evening With Champions" yesterday said they expect a sellout crowd and proceeds of more than $100,000 from this weekend's event...
...will be in the street to cheer him. If he comes, says Missad, "it will mean peace. We all want peace." But even here, Palestinians can't suppress the fear that self-rule is an Israeli trick that will turn their town into the symbol of a P.L.O. sellout...
...Harris could not stomach Clinton's inaction "against genocide and the Serbs who perpetrate it." Now that the U.S. is ready to send in the Air Force, it would seem an odd time for a dramatic stand. But not to Harris, who considers the Administration's role a tawdry sellout...
...Washington-based punk-rock band Fugazi was founded in 1987 on one principle: no sellout. Fugazi has never made a music video, never appeared on MTV's Beavis and Butt-head. They charge only $5 a ticket for their live shows and keep their CD prices between $8 and $10. Their music was grubby before grunge was grunge, featuring primal drum rolls, furious guitar feedback and more-leftist-than-thou lyrics. "You better start living the life/ That you're talking about," go the words to the group's 1988 song Bad Mouth. Despite this anticommercialism stance, or perhaps because...
There's a paradox in being a rock-'n'-roll rebel. To succeed is to fail; the more records you sell, the more you're considered a sellout. Your raison d'etre is antiestablishment rage, but once your record goes platinum, you're forced to admit that a) you're now part of the problem or that b) maybe at least some of the people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway...