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This performance differed from her 1984 Mister Heartbreak tour in that Anderson had musical support from only a single synthesizer and two male backup singers. Her barrage of instruments included a particularly bizarre vocoder (a synthesizer that alters the sound of human voice), an amplified microphone stand on which she tapped out the beat for "Closed Circuit," and her own technological innovation, the magnetic tape-bow violin...
...designate them as "criticality 1" items, components whose failure would doom the mission. Earlier shuttle flights had indicated that the second ring might be unseated from its groove by the great pressures on the rocket casing during lift-off, and could not always be relied upon as a backup should the first ring fail. Lack of a reliable backup violated a longtime NASA principle. The space agency formally waived the redundancy requirement for these seals in March 1983 to permit flights to continue. Meantime, as many as 43 different solutions to the problem were being studied...
Northeastern, the third-place team in the powerful Hockey East, could not stop the Crimson. The Huskies fell 7-1 even though Harvard started backup goalie Dickie McEvoy...
...Award, is a notch behind Bourbeau with a 1.97 point-per-game average. The nation's top scorer is Western Michigan's Dan Dorian, owner of a 2.68 points-per-game average...Fusco made the ECAC Honor Roll for his two-goal effort against St. Lawrence...McEvoy and fellow backup goalie John Devin finished in a tie for first place in Ivy League goals-against average. McEvoy didn't allow a goal in his 16 minutes of Ivy action against Brown in early February and Devin blanked Dartmouth in his 10 minute Ancient Eight cameo in late November...
Dickie McEvoy, Blair's backup, won his only start this year and saw action in two other Crimson victories...