Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BELL TOLLS...
...problem is that the economics of recycling are out of whack. Enthusiasm for collecting recyclables has raced ahead of the capacity in many areas to process and market them. Right now, says Victor Bell, a veteran Rhode Island recycling expert, "the market can't keep up with the recycling binge." In recent years many states and municipalities have passed laws mandating the collection of newspapers, plastics, glass and paper. But arranging for processing -- and finding a profit in it -- has proved tricky. As trucks loaded with recyclable materials arrive at processors, backlogs develop. Worse, the glut has depressed already soft...
...music on my own: Erasure is there to help. Listen to "ABBA-esque" once, and you'll know the tunes backwards and forwards. These songs are so infectious you'll feel like they've been floating around in our collective unconscious, just waiting for someone like Erasure's Andy Bell to give them voice. They sound like nursery songs, and they have the same simplistic, joyous appeal...
...words are stupid--it's obvious they were written by people with only the slightest clue about English (example: "It was like shooting a sitting duck/a little talk and a smile and baby I was stuck"). But forget them-Bell does. The high point of the album comes on "Take A Chance on Me," where he leaves the lyrics behind and babbles a blissful "ba ba ba ba." And the concept is hilarious: Erasure is just a latter-day incarnation of ABBA, after all--they're both gooey, disco-ey, selfparodying pop groups. Thus this album is self-parody...
Southwestern Bell has oodles of information/message computer centers located throughout the Astrodome complex. Anyone at the convention can use the computers to obtain a daily agenda of all convention events, a map of Houston or any areas of the Astrodome complex, or suggestions for good dining or entertainment spots around the city. Best of all, anyone an leave a voice message with an operator which will be printed out at any computer when the recipient enters his or her name into the computer...