Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been trying to crack the a cappella riddle for several months now. Why do all the groups have such snappy, clever names? Why do they all use that same human horseshoe configuration? Why must the singers constantly trade places between songs? And what do these people have against instruments...
...covert birth, why didn't they leave the child at a hospital? True, young mothers, alone and terrified, have been known to abandon their newborns. But how could two secure, educated 18-year-olds convince themselves that this was the best of all alternatives? And if indeed they did crack the baby's skull, what possessed them to do so? To understand all is to forgive all, the old saying goes. Understanding Grossberg and Peterson seems a long...
...been another hot year for consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
...Cameron rejects the idea that someone was avenging the director's high-handed behavior. "It would be easy to say the crew was disgruntled, but it was the last night of shooting [there]... It would be a dumb time to disrupt things," he reasons. Police have yet to crack the case...
Brown is a wonderfully understated Albert Einstein in his suave argyle sweater vest and white lab coat, enunciating phrases like "workaday wedding" and "wonderful witticism" with a charming Teutonic lisp. DeLima overacts deliberately, and is spot-on, portraying Retton as if she were on crack, which is the only way to portray...