Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger world has tried to put into some kind of balance the feelings Tyson inspires: awe, admiration, pity, disappointment, fear and loathing. By the time the sportswriters, columnists and comics were done with him last week, the balance was tipped against him more completely than ever. At the Hollywood Wax Museum in Los Angeles, Tyson's effigy was moved from the Sports Hall of Fame to the Chamber of Horrors. He now stands near Hannibal Lecter, the carnivore from Silence of the Lambs. For a man undone by some indigestible thing within himself, maybe that's just the right spot...
PLATTERS Vinyl is thriving in the digital age. Who buys LPs? Among others, jazz aficionados who want vinyl reissues and club DJs who still spin wax...
...Hole (Astralwerks) features a few songs that energetically blend rock and hip-hop, but Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys did it better in the '80s. The Future Sound of London's Dead Cities (Astralwerks) is as exciting as a dead Tamagotchi, and Underworld's Pearl's Girl (Wax Trax! Records) is only a trifle more fun than having a fax machine call you on your voice line...
...Prodigy's long-awaited CD is supposed to convert the electro doubters. Says James Lavelle, head of England's influential Mo'Wax Records: "[The Prodigy] is one of those bands that do everything right: the right records, the right videos, it looks right, it does the show right." Says band member Flint: "We're not trying to be faceless and thinking that makes us interesting. We're up-front. We're saying, 'Look, if you're going to come out and see us, we're going to rock...
...only a few semesters, I am unable to recall the identities of sundry section leaders and teaching fellows. And, I daresay, most of the instructors I've encountered will soon forget me. Many have done so already. Alas! How fleeting are our days here at Harvard. Sure, I'will wax romantic about the grandeur of the Yard and the vastness of Widener Library. But who will populate these wistful memories? Certainly not the administration. May be a sympathetic professor, but probably not. My classmates? A handful of close friends at most. No, the souls whom I'll remember most...