Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STOVALL, 38; TULSA, OKLA.; Narrative Television Network The film buff learned he was going blind at 17 and completely lost his sight by 29. He found his favorite films, like The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, difficult to enjoy. "Even though I had seen it a number of times, I couldn't follow the end." In 1988 Stovall, the author of You Don't Have to Be Blind to See, started NTN to narrate TV and movie classics for an audience that could no longer see them. Today the Emmy Award--winning network reaches 25 million homes...
...learned that the councilman's phone number was printed at the bottom of some pictures of naked women that had been posted to a Usenet newsgroup called alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, which, naturally, Suponcic had never heard of. But he had a friend in Cleveland who was something of a computer buff. So the next day the two of them jacked into Usenet and spent three hours sifting through about 7,400 files on alt. binaries.etc...
...from "What's Love Got To Do With It" and as pissed as ever, she had the audience shouting along with her as she threw her adulterous husband out of her house and proceeded to burn all his belongings, including his Mercedes. "I'm tired," she screams, baring those buff biceps, "of being a background to your foreground...
...versions on the record. The rest of the collection showcases songs from such artists as the Pretenders, Hootie & the Blowfish, k.d. lang, R.E.M. and Lou Reed, all of whom will be heard on the show this season. Compiled in part by Friends executive producer Kevin Bright, a music buff with an 8,000-volume record collection, the CD reflects the sitcom's young, urban sensibility. "What I didn't want to do was just put out a bunch of songs haphazardly thrown together behind a brand name known as Friends," says Bright...
...amber from 15 locations around the globe, from Burma to the Baltic Sea. Already, says president and co-founder Robin Steele, Ambergene scientists have identified filamentous fungi similar to those that have produced a distinguished line of antibiotics. They have also brewed batches of ale with ancient yeast. Beer buff Cano was named official taster of the new brew, dubbed Jurassic Amber Ale (a slight misnomer since the yeast used to make it did not come from the Jurassic period, which ended 144 million years ago, but from more recent geological epochs.) Quipped Steele to Cano: "We're not going...