Word: frontman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legendary dead and dying has the misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably hardly a day goes...
...There is not a single Negro player with major league possibilities," the Sporting News editorialized at the end of the conspiracy in 1945, widely reflecting the views of the oligarchy of owners that controlled the game. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the imperious commissioner of baseball, took the role of frontman for the charade and declared, "Negroes are not banned from organized baseball...and have never been in the 21 years I have served." All this was barely 30 years ago, scarcely believable in an age when Blacks dot the league leaders' lists and all-star teams...
...numbers like title cut "Mesopotamia" or "Throw that Beat in the Garbage Can." the 52's best trick has always been to create danceable tunes, with lyrics so ridiculous that you feel tremendously self-conscious while twitching your feel. "I am no student of ancient culture," warbles the silly frontman Fred Schneider in "Mesopotamia," which he trumpets in concert as being kind of "geological." Before I talk, I should read a book." Yeah, he should, but these don't sound like the sort of lyrics that go with dance music...
...with the powers that be, Rooney quit over CBS's refusal to air his essay on war-written, he recalls, from the perspective of "a soft hardhat." The network sold him the piece for a nominal sum, and he took it to public television. Minus his old frontman, Rooney narrated the documentary, and so it was that his on-camera career was launched...