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...never heard techno pop so self-indulgent. The electronic gadgets beep and boom in delicious excess--"S.O.S." sounds like R2D2 having an orgasm. The album is so incredibly boppy and catchy it's downright scary; these melodies will stick in your head obsessively, providing a manic soundtrack to your thoughts for weeks to come...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Dig This Fluffy, Funky Groove | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

Weisser: At first it was just messages. The very first time I reached his answering machine, I had to listen to a 10-minute taped diatribe about how evil the Jews and the blacks were. There was a beep at the end to leave a message, and I said, "Larry, you'd better think about all this hatred you're doing, that you are involved in, because you're going to have to deal with God one day, and it's not going to be easy." Larry is disabled, and another time I called, I said, "Larry, the very first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cantor and the Klansman: WEISSER, TRAPP | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...plane then departed for Czechoslovakia, taking the place of a scheduled Pakistan International Airlines commercial flight that was aborted at the last minute by prearrangement. The 707's radar transponder was altered to beep out the code of a commercial airliner, which enabled the plane to overfly several countries without arousing suspicion. "From Czechoslovakia the 707 flew to the U.S.," said the informant, insisting that none of the black-unit workers had any knowledge of what was in the heavy wooden crates. "It could have been gold. It could have been drugs. It could have been guns. We dealt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

SUDDENLY there is a loud beep...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: My HUN-ny Pie | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...experiment, participants wore an apparatus that placed the mouth of a tube close to one eye. They heard a beep lasting for a half-second, during which the tube blew a puff of oxygen into the eye, making them blink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eye Test May Help Diagnose Alzheimer's | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

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