Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden surge in popularity? An RV is a classic '90s sensible luxury item. At the low end of the tow end, trailers start with a $3,000 folding-camper model. At the high end, $80,000 buys a luxury liner (a "fifth wheel" in RV argot) replete with mechanical slide-out rooms, ceramic kitchen tile and Whirlpool bath. And they fit nicely behind that other '90s sensible luxury item, the sport utility vehicle...
Strange words for a middle-aged father of two grown children, Sally, 23, and Ben, 24. But Taylor has been painfully wrenching his way into manhood since 1971, when he sang, "Let the boy become a man" on the album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. "I was aware of that back then. It just takes a long time to get here," he explains. "Recovery is part of it. Death is part of it. Love that goes bad is part of it. Failing to be a parent is part of it. You have to fail over and over...
...Recently, I've just done a long essay on the Irish artist James Coleman, and one of the points of that essay was how he has done something that I would call" inventing a medium," in his case based on the very low-life, commercial support of the slide tape...
Harvard should strive to produce an event akin to Brown's Spring Weekend, a four-day affair that takes over the campus and this year featured a block party, carnival booths, jousting match, karaoke, Slip and Slide and performances by Bob Dylan and Bo Diddley, among others. Still, in its current incarnation, Springfest is not worth our time, effort or money. There must be something better...
...wings/ And we will fly away to heaven") in the gorgeous remake of her Gulf Coast Highway, a duet with Hootie's Darius Rucker. His gruff baritone and Griffith's twangy soprano soar apart, then join in double rapture. The instrumentation--string quintet, Floyd Cramerish rolling piano, electric slide guitar--makes the song a pretty little anthology of pop's fine old tendency to synthesize, not isolate, strains of music. Listening in the Great Beyond to Griffith's salving ballads, God might tap His foot. Even Kurt Cobain might crack an enlightened smile...