Word: button
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three months it seemed that everyone in Sweden was wearing a lapel button. Some sported badges reading ENERGY FOR SWEDEN. Others wore yellow buttons with a red sunburst proclaiming...
...would have been phased out over the next ten years. Instead, even though the referendum was not constitutionally binding, the government is now obliged to move forward with a national plan to continue developing nuclear energy for at least another 25 years. Still sporting his NO, THANK YOU button after the vote, Centrist Premier Thorbjörn Falldin went on national television. "I remain personally opposed to nuclear power," he said. "But my conscience is not the decisive factor. Swedes have spoken, and I am pledged to carry out their will...
...tempestuous attempts at punk mentality on the second release, Ha! Ha! Ha! The band took the Great Leap Forward, both in terms of control and content, shifting from mondo-meltdown rockers to cool and cerebral nouveau disco. The main interest moved to, the machines themselves. Push a button and watch the lights blink. It was hypnotic and irresistible...
...cold biographical facts, Lead Guitarist Johnny Ramone clams up like a good JD facing his first joyride rap. "We never say our real names," he allows with teasing stubbornness that combines the flirtatiousness of a starlet who has just been asked her age and the sacred silence of a button man pleading the Fifth. If pressed, Johnny will elaborate: "We can't subject our parents to this. I never told them in the beginning about the band. They'd have said, 'Stop this, you can't even play a song.' I waited until...
...unlikely that Robbins, now 61, is going to rejoin his progeny by doing a new show soon. "What interests me is a great challenge," he says, "like doing Uncle Tom 's Cabin as the Siamese might do it [The King and I or a Mack Sennett ballet [High Button Shoes] or gritty backstage burlesque [Gypsy] or Jewish shtetl life [Fiddler]. I like doing the research, looking at the theatrical magazines of those periods or going through old photographs at the New York Public Library. Let's face it, a musical version of Little Women just...