Word: montana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wired with a vengeance, and that's changing everything: how bands get heard, how performers develop followings, even how music gets distributed. In the past two years thousands of Websites catering to millions of fans have sprung into existence, from tiny one-computer home pages for garage bands in Montana to world-class monster sites like New York City-based N2K www.n2k.com) which offers thousands of titles, stages regular live Netcasts, and announced last week that it had hired legendary rock producer Phil Ramone to create a new, Net-oriented record label. "Music is the perfect resource to digitize," says...
...takes starry optimism to see the settling of the eastern Montana drylands primarily as a romance rather than, say, a swindle or a blunder. And starry optimism is what settling this magnificent emptiness required in the first place, as Jonathan Raban relates in his beautifully told historical meditation, Bad Land: An American Romance (Pantheon; 336 pages...
...William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and PrairyErth, is a pervasive sense of yearning. The author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would have found himself in Montana by 1908, driving fence posts with aching city shoulders and checking the sky hopefully for rain...
...Arkansas, Nebraska and Alabama, which will have two Republican Senators for the first time since Reconstruction, but lost in South Dakota, where Larry Pressler fell to Representative Tim Johnson. Democrats held open seats in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Georgia and dashed G.O.P. hopes for further gains in Montana and Illinois. Gingrich, who on Election Day was privately predicting that he would pick up five seats, kept his balloons in the nets and his head down in a hotel in Atlanta long into the night as his margin slipped away hour by hour...
...that Congress's tradition of comity and compromise is disappearing along with the centrists. Not every case is so laden with deeper meaning. "It is a simple matter," said Representative Pat Williams (D-Mont.), about his decision to leave after 18 years. "Carol and I are homesick. We miss Montana...I drive by the fishing holes, but can't cast my line. I drive by the hiking trails and want [to walk] on them." That says more about the simple attractions of home than the shortcomings of life on Capitol Hill...