Word: astro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old American who grew up unknowingly addicted to Japanimation (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer, Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets), I was pleased that you covered a topic near and dear to me. But the sad truth is that anime will never be fully appreciated in countries where limited imaginations restrict animation to a children's medium. Some of the best storytelling in the world continues to go unrecognized. In Japan, manga (graphic novels) and anime have long been recognized as important facets of modern Japanese culture. Now if only we could get better translations...
...budget cuts and all, SETI can't afford the computers it needs to do the job. That's where your humble home (or office) PC comes in. Download its software over the Internet, and SETI central at Berkeley will send chunks of data for your machine to process. Amateur astro-geeks everywhere are pitching in. In the two weeks SETI@home has been available, more than 390,000 users have signed...
Saint Etienne are beautiful. Repeatedly, consistently and achingly beautiful. After brandishing a decidedly pop wand in last year's Good Humor, Pristine chanteuse Sarah Cracknell, understated pop priestess in the vein of Diana Ross, returns with gifted nerd musicians Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs to make more of that astro-optimistic music for waxing reminiscent over good old days that never were. Here, acutely-attuned sophistication unfurls in a lazy crawl over barely-populated audio-maps of restrained infectiousness. It is an enchanting but ultimately deserted place they take you, inhabited only by a gaseous voice. This is music...
...despite calling Nirvana a "wannabe Led Zeppelin" in 1991.) Steve became very popular and went on to engineer albums by people like Bush and JimmyPage & Robert Plant. He also engineers albums forpopular bands like the Breeders and PJ Harvey andless well-known bands like the Jesus Lizard andMan...Or Astro-Man?. It is worthy of note thatSteve refuses royalties on all work he engineers.He walks the walk. But most people wish he'd justshut the hell up with the talk, already...
Meanwhile, the anti-environmental forces have been investing heavily in the political arena with lobbyists, fundraising, public relations and creative initiatives called "astro-turf," which are designed to make it look as though there is a grass roots movement to repeal environmental protections. These interest groups, usually but not always led by a trade group, are not standing apart from the political process. Indeed they are often creatively inventing it as they go along...