Word: skunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ORIGIN: Developed at the CIA's behest during the cold war to spy on the Soviet Union, the plane was created by Lockheed's famed Skunk Works unit (nicknamed after the "Skonk Works" in Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner).The aircraft made its first flight in August...
...Nowell who first introduced his bandmates to ska and reggae, when the trio were middle-class, punk-rock-worshipping youngsters growing up in Long Beach, California. They formed a band in 1988, and when clubs refused to book their strange-sounding hybrid act, they founded their own label, Skunk Records, just so they could proudly tell clubs they were "Skunk Records recording artists...
...SKUNK ANANSIE Paranoid & Sunburnt (Epic/One Little Indian). This British quartet, one of the few hard-rock bands fronted by a black woman, boasts a scaldingly bold sound, mixing chunks of punk, bits of R. and B. and even a dash of gospel in its joyously fierce debut album...
...Lick of Fury" also uses a blending of crude animation with real-life footage, this time not of aging potheads but of freakishly costumed neighbors. Skunk Guy (Christian Brown) gives an admittedly virtuoso performance as the local loser--this in a whole neighborhood of them--who can't stop licking himself...
...flash-back memory and a courageous street-crossing help Skunk Guy learn to stop drooling all over the place, but somehow it doesn't really matter. The inventive costumes (especially a certain breast-squeezing machine and a Torah-reading monkey-device) keep the 14 minute short just barely above water...