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...band has touched on in the past: alienation; the glory of youth; mortality; the difficulties that come with living in the public eye. The album has its share of stinkers -- the accordion-driven Bugs, for example, sounds like something circus clowns might perform before a Greenwich Village poetry slam. But that's one admirably experimental failure on a largely successful album. Pearl Jam's great talent is the ability to meld melody and power: the music is sweet and dangerous. On Corduroy, the album's best song, lead singer Eddie Vedder delivers an impassioned antimedia rant backed up by scathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Scathing Guitars, Pretty Tunes | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

Case in point: in the first half, with about 7:30 to go, Harvard was down 23-17. But then the Crimson came alive, going on a 10-2 run that included a James White slam off of a Paul Kubiak rejection and a trey by Mike Gilmore...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Catching a Lizard | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...show, Entertainment Tonight, A Current Affair and CBS This Morning, among others, were on the phone to the men's Boston publicist, Paul Dugan. There was much debate among the advisers about how high or low to go on the media food chain -- should the guys go for a slam dunk with a supersensitive host like Maury Povich or risk potentially tough questions on network programs? But not to worry. After accepting air fare and hotel accommodations to appear on Today last week, three of the Jenny Craig Eight, prepped like witnesses at the Simpson trial, came off like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Female Chauvinist Pigs? | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Undeniably topical, "Hoop Dreams" is not just a movie about basketball. It captivates its audience at every smooth pass and at every slam-dunk, but it is more far-reaching than the hype of a Nike commercial and vastly more politically-infused than a Duke game. See it, and see what's going...

Author: By Mimi N. Schultz, | Title: 'Dreams' A Provocative Mix of Hoops and Glory | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

...governor spent $2.5 million dollars this year on a television ad campaign designed to slam an opponent who never came within 30 points of his standing in the polls...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Governor Weld Wins Second Term Easily Over Roosevelt | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

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