Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beatles redux? Hardly. Menudo, the objects of all that adolescent yearning, are well-behaved puertorriqueños who sing in their native Spanish and play no instruments. The hundreds of thousands of U.S. fans typically are Hispanic junior high schoolers, like the heartthrobs themselves: five Puerto Rican boys, ages 13 to 15. And menudo, which means "small change" in Spanish, is not really a band or even, to use the '60s phrase, a combo. It is a clever marketing idea: the boys are mere employees of a promoter who replaces each one before he turns 16. "Menudo...
...vows concocted for those weddings seem period pieces now. They were oppressively poetic, gushily confessional. They were sweet and intimate and profound and occasionally metaphysical, like a Hallmark card. They were illuminated by moonbeams of Kahlil Gibran ("Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone") and drenched with fragrances of Rod McKuen. At one wedding of the time, the bridegroom rhapsodized: "It is therefore our glorious and divine purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more...
...unanimous in their assessments of Robinson's talent. "His voice is so rich and so powerful," says Chris Charron '85, who directed the performer in this year's Kirkland House performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Adds Hasty Pudding President Adam Issacs '84: "You get chills listening to him sing...
Robinson says he will continue to sing after leaving Harvard. He plans to return to Texas for a year to work in a small publishing firm and save money for a shot at Broadway--his "ultimate goal." In Texas, Robinson plans to sing in church choirs and work with an outdoor theater. He says he has considered going to law school to guarantee a secure future, but has decided to put all his energy into trying to make it as a singer and actor...
...experiences out there that are outside of school a lot of poverty and a lot of dead end careers. "She is particularly concerned with improving face relations and advancing the cause of feminism Sexism. Rodriguez says, can distort even an artist's public image "It Prince's going to sing about all of these sex topics, people think he's being risque and that's cute," she says. But it Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for the Plasmatics, flaunts her sexuality on stage. Rodriguez says, she is seen as one of many "dumb broads fronting a band," She adds...