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...Saturday, the Push Stars turn up, while Elastica (led by the inimitably cool Justine Frischmann, left), perhaps the best of the groups of the so-called Britpop invasion of the mid-'90s, will perform at Avalon. (Incidentally, the version of Trio's '80s hit "Da Da Da" that closes The Menace, Elastica's latest album, is pure genius...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: In the Mix | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...Shear Madness actually begins about fifteen minutes before its scheduled starting time. The actors enter the stage to music from the '60s through '80s and proceed to set the scene with exaggerated movements and gestures, causing laughter well before the first words are spoken. The music and ever-tacky yellow wallpapered set--full of actual styling products--is well-done and one of the play's strongest assets. Actors take every advantage of shaving cream, shampoo and a sink...

Author: By Rebecca Dezube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Madness Goes for Laughs, Not Depth | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...late 80s and early 90s, figures were astronomical for youths being shot and killed," said Marci L. Feldman, assistant to Prothrow-Stith. By 1999, Feldman added, "Boston had gone three years without a child under 16 being involved in a gun death...

Author: By By WARREN S. adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPH To Study Youth Violence | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...late '80s, Krayzelburg's parents were so worried about the deteriorating Soviet system that they applied for exit visas. The family, including Lenny's sister Marsha, finally left the U.S.S.R. in 1989 and landed in Los Angeles. At what should have been the peak of his career, Krayzelburg instead found himself struggling to learn a new language, getting a maintenance job at the local Jewish community center and swimming only a couple of hours a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lenny Krayzelburg | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...vice president inherited his father's relationship with Hammer - as well as taking over a piece of land the oil magnate had sold his father in a lucrative sweetheart deal - and dined regularly with the oilman in Washington during the '80s. Hammer was Gore's guest at the Reagan inaugural in 1984, and the then-senator also got him a prime seat at the Bush inaugural four years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Big Oil Connection: An 'Occident' of Birth? | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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