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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple's car is rammed from behind by some bad guys in a van. They're trying to push the couple's car onto the tracks. Ding, ding, ding! The train is coming! Screech! The good guy accelerates, and the bad guys' van ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie when another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blam! Kapow! Eat Your Peas! | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...Marie's hair says "Wham! Make it Big," then Sherrod's hair says "Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever." Sherrod's hair--which she describes as "a cross between a collegiate Brooke Shields and Diana Ross"--definitely has some affinity with disco balls and hot pants. Through a "ritualistic getting-ready process," Sherrod "tames" her locks without the aid of gel or hairspray. She simply curls them repeatedly around bobby pins. "I realized how big my hair was when this two-year-old came up to me in the MAC and said, 'Wow, you have Big Hair!'" Sherrod says laughing...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: WHAM! Make it Big | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...libido is unbolted. Jason is a 19-year-old Los Angeles sales clerk who learned that he was infected at 16. There were AIDS education programs at his high school, but the message never hit home. "You're young, you think you're invincible," he says. "And then--wham! Reality gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: HOPE WITH AN ASTERISK | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

While more than 750 students danced to the songs of Wham! and the Bangles in the Leverett dining hall, hundreds more tried to push their way in, forcing the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) detail officer on hand to call for backup...

Author: By Charles G. Kels, | Title: Rowdiness Disrupts '80s Dance | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Unfortunately, none of the albums under consideration here are very good. In particular, Michael's new CD, Older, is hypocritical and dreary. The singer has been rebelling against his teenybopper past as co-leader of Wham! for some time now (his last album, which attempted a more serious tone, was titled Listen Without Prejudice Vol. I), but on this new CD he is not only a rebel without a cause, he also lacks energy and wit. On the song Star People he actually sings "Star People/ counting your money till your soul turns green/ Star people/ counting the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OLDER BUT NOT WISER | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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