Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Raymond Belknap, 18, was excited about the Christmas present he was giving his best friend, James Vance, 20: a heavy-metal rock record by the British band Judas Priest. For five hours the young men listened to the raucous, apocalyptic throb of the music while they smoked marijuana and split a dozen beers. Violent fantasies were nothing new to either of them. Vance had choked his mother on one occasion and hit her with a hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks...
...have been outsmarted by the market, if talk of all-time record levels in the stock market makes you cranky, don't feel...
...That same day Howard Ruff's newsletter explained that "the momentum chart is very bearish. Every other major stock index has fallen below its longterm optimal moving average, making it nearly impossible for the Dow not to soon follow suit. Watch out below!" Mutual funds were sitting with record amounts of cash. Individuals had sold vast numbers of shares short, anticipating a decline...
...three have made it to No. 1. Step by Step, their new album, went No. 1 in the second week of its release. A new single, Tonight, is on the way. So far, the three collections of New Kids videos have turned over 3.3 million copies, setting a sales record that surpasses even Michael Jackson's. Paperback band bios have occupied the No. 2 and No. 3 positions on best-seller lists simultaneously, even though both are officially "unauthorized." "I looked through one of them," says Jordan Knight, 20, the hunk of the bunch. "It's not good...
...Hall, + almost unanimous critical disdain and its own supercilious egotism to score a total of five Top Five singles. Even the hotly debated rumor that they don't do their own singing in live performance doesn't diminish their commercial luster. "If I'd heard the first Milli Vanilli record, I would have signed them," says Geffen Records president Ed Rosenblatt. Notes Jeff Gold, a vice president at Warner Bros. Records: "They may not be what I listen to when I go home, but they have good looks and dancing ability that appeal to the kids. The same goes...