Word: tonks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What was once a quaint town center is now whatCity Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 terms "atrifle of a honkey-tonk atmosphere...
...BRAND NEW CAR IS probably the most promising new song on "Voodoo Lounge." All the same, it begins with a too-standard blues bass line. The funky horns are a nice addition, but the song doesn't bring blues as far as the easy rumble of "Honky Tonk Women" or the casual calypso flavor of "Crackin...
Whether Disney spent $12 million mounting Beauty, as its moguls claim, or a more beastly $20 million, as some theater insiders assert, it has bet big on its belief in a vast untapped stage audience yearning for family entertainment -- even in the honky-tonk heart of Manhattan, even at a $65 top-ticket price, even at a 10:30 p.m. curtain-call time, when much of the target audience should be in bed. So far, business has been good. The day after Beauty opened, it set an all-time Broadway record for a single day's ticket sales...
...perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps and hip outlets, mom-and-pop shops and name-brand superstores. The goal is not a "themed" simulacrum of honky-tonk diversity but the real thing. Such a splendidly oxymoronic turn: a municipal code for discouraging tastefulness, a quarter-billion dollars spent to conjure a trashy Damon Runyon spirit. The Bizarro-world rules call for, among other things, giant loudspeakers blasting onto the street, commercial signs noticeably out of alignment with their...
American Honky-Tonk Bar Association is all the more unfortunate since the rest of this album is so well conceived and executed, covering country, blues and full-out rock. Standing Outside the Fire, a song about living life to the fullest, begins with a catchy guitar riff that would be at home on many noncountry pop albums. "Life is not tried it is merely survived/ If you're standing outside the fire," sings Brooks over a percussion break that sounds nearly African. In concerts and in interviews, Brooks is an intense, full- throttle performer, and the song manages to captures...