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...serving as an 'orchestra' for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows ... Composer John Eaton says of Moog: 'He has brought electronic music out of the lab and into our lives.' The basic elements of Moog's machine are amplifiers, mixers, filters and voltage-controlled oscillators ... Because its voltage controls can precisely 'shape' tones as they are being produced, the Moog affords more spontaneous variations of sounds than other comparable synthesizers, and far more subtlety and musicality...
...cream—$2 billion more than it would cost to provide clean water and safe sewers for the world's population. Moreover, Americans and Europeans spend $17 billion per year on pet food—$4 billion more than the additional amount needed annually to provide basic health and nutrition to the whole world...
...imaginative novels, he has subverted language, shuffled genres and generally had mucho fun - as in his 1992 "autobiography" of Marilyn Monroe. A mustachioed Asturias-born academic, he studied philosophy in Madrid and New York City and taught literature in Madrid and the U.S. Blood on the Saddle is your basic science-fiction-detective-western-literary romance, peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined celebrity X-rays ("A colonoscope of Ana Belén? It's yours. Plates of Julio Iglesias' prostate? You'll have 'em.") Reig's gumshoe has an unusual specialty: finding fictional...
Meet your quota for cinematic sex and death early next year, when Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction arrives in March. In it, SHARON STONE, with British co-star DAVID MORRISSEY, revisits the 1992 role that made her famous. "We like to think of this as Basic Instinct: The European Version," says Stone, 47. "We were very, very free." Um, how free? "Am I going to sit around and cross and uncross my legs again? Well, I guess everybody will have to pay their $10 to find out." But don't hold your breath for a trilogy. Says Stone: "It would...
...using this system, Charbonneau said he can ensure that students are staying up-to-date on the reading and mastering the basic principles of physics...