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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INEVITABLY, Oh-Ok is going to be compared with their fellow Athens Ga, band, REM, especially since Linda Stipe is the sister of Michael, lead singer for REM. And, in fact, Oh-Ok and REM do have many common elements: guitar sounds, vague lyrics, and dream-like atmospheres. Fortunately, however. Oh-Ok does not try to match REM for lyrical ambiguity. Although Hopper and Stipe do create deceptive verbal tricks, they do not slur and clip their vocals to the extent that Michael Stipe does. REM presents the listener with an insoluable puzzle; with each new listening one continually hears...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times | 8/7/1984 | See Source »

...California ranks, they had to reach out. They also had to appeal to patriotism because the pay for out-of-town dancers was only $500 plus free room and board for three weeks of rehearsals and the show itself. It was enough to lure Anna Kuni and her twin sister Kana, who perform as the Cherry Blossoms, Redd Foxx's opening act in Las Vegas, ending up clad in top hats and tails, period. In the Coliseum they wore more. "We wanted to be part of the Olympics," said Anna, who with her sister came to this country from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hooray for Hollywood | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...stripes remain among its many symbols, Jerde and Suss man call their effervescent design Festive Federalism. But it is much more. It is a rich synthesis of 20th century art, from Mird's squiggles and Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-woogie to Charles Eames' playfulness and Sister Mary Corita's sense of celebration, brought together, as Jerde puts it, "to express a moment rather than memorialize an epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Festive Moment, Not an Epic | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

Your little brother or sister couldn't care less about understanding his or her true inner self, so he will love The Neverending Story. But anyone over the age of 12 will have trouble forgetting that it is, after all, only a story...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: That's Entertainment | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...miss my family," a young laborer on Olympic Boulevard said the other morning. In his village he has a wife, three children, a mother and an invalid sister he supports. With the money he earns in construction work or cutting lawns, his family gets along well at home, but would be terribly poor in East Los Angeles. So he works for two months, goes home for a month and returns. The loneliness is the only thing that gets him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In Search of the Angels | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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