Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shining is the No. 1 song in U.S. clubs. Next month an all-star tribute to Marley will be held in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica, featuring performers ranging from Sarah McLachlan to Busta Rhymes (it will air on TNT Dec. 19). And next month Bob Marley: Soul Rebel (Thunder's Mouth; 144 pages; $22.95), by former Billboard reporter Maureen Sheridan, will be released, detailing the stories behind Marley's songs. Earlier this year a Marley-themed restaurant/ club opened at Universal Studios CityWalk in Orlando, Fla. The menu features Caribbean cuisine, and the decor is based on Marley's home...
...palm-size Nintendo Game Boy, insert the proper cartridge and switch it on. Soon, a creature with a lightning-bolt tail bounces through an animated sequence, pops a cute grin and yelps, "Pikachu!" You have met the most popular of the Pokemon, a creature--part cherub and part thunder god--that is the most famous mouse since Mickey and Mighty...
Although I probably wouldn't want to watch a video about it, day-to-day weather is just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...
...Tower. I'm having fun making great deals, and I'm living the American Dream." When he's not having fun, he's a wall of worry that the American Dream could turn into a nightmare. "View [the American Dream] another way--toward the future--and I can see thunder and lightning. And I'm not the only one." What's it going to take to save the Dream? He's glad you asked. The answer is, A straight shooter. "Straight shooters are going to rule tomorrow... I'm going to shoot straight about foreign threats and I'm going...
...ideas down in red pen on yellow legal pads. ("I've got notepads from when I was in fifth grade.") Lately he's taken to calling up his answering machine and leaving messages for himself. His comic ideas begin as cumulus clouds of general observation before coalescing into the thunder and lightning of his stand-up. "I had something the other day--this thing about men, that no matter what they're doing at their job, if some beautiful woman walks by, you try to do it cool," says Rock. "So I'm trying to figure out how you unload...