Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Circuit Court of Appeals upheld her ruling last Aug. 27, stating that the ordinance wrongly discriminates on the basis of speech content...
...benefit of the great unwashed who have never seen a Pudding show, that every slice of dialogue is a self-transcending attempt at stupider jokes than the ones before. And the authors have outdone themselves this year. Whether it's the Bible, Consumer Reports, or the game-show circuit, Jess Bravin and Peter Sagal have plumbed the depths of Americana, Harvardiana, banality and even hallowed Tradition to create some of the longest strings of groan-inducing one-liners in history...
Soon after Pat Robertson's station went on the air in 1961, he hired Jim and Tammy Bakker, who were working the revival circuit, to run a children's show. Bakker later devised and helped host what became The 700 Club. Eventually Bakker left Robertson and helped Paul Crouch launch the Trinity network, then moved to Charlotte in 1974 and became the head of the PTL network. Bakker thus had a hand in developing the three original Christian networks...
...sameness. Up the lift, down the beautifully groomed trail, half an hour in the lift line with several hundred nice people, then up and down again: the alpine skier turns himself into a yo-yo. And after the fifth or tenth chug around the splendidly scenic cross-country circuit, the Nordic skier can feel like a toy train...