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...Baiul's performance was not nearly as clean as her rival's; she two-footed a triple flip (a major gaffe) and simplified another jump. Critics were quick to point out that her first-place rankings each came from four East bloc countries and a German judge from the defunct Democratic Republic. Since the early 1980s, the majority of the nine judges' rankings has carried the day rather than the old system of totaling all points; if Kerrigan had been competing in 1976, when Dorothy Hamill won, the gold medal would have been hers...
...listen to. aMINIATURE have clearly heard a lot of Big Black and a lot of Replacements--there's one song, "Featurist," on this disc that wouldn't sound out of place on the 'Placemats' LET IT BE LP. But the best analogy for aMINIATURE's sound is a defunct Richmond, VA band called Honor Role, who combined continually off-balance, polyrhythmic bass and drum work with very simple guitar attacks and half-spoken, half-sung, half-muttered grumblings about life, the universe and high school. (Yeah, I know that adds up to three-halves of a vocal line. When...
...infecting Harvard Square. Furthermore, many of the Shops sell frivolous and strange merchandise--like handmade southwestern-style headbands and weird psychedelic quilts--that would be undesirable at any price. Where once we had discount bookstores, now we have Keely's Kites and Life's a Grind, a now defunct kiosk that sold salt and pepper grinders...
...wrote out a personal charter on a pad of yellow legal paper. He insisted that he would investigate "any individuals or entities" who had broken federal laws relating in any way to the President's or First Lady's dealings with Whitewater or Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, the defunct S&L once headed by James McDougal, the Clintons' partner in Whitewater. Over the longer term that could mean trouble for the President, the First Lady or both. Over the shorter term Fiske can only help them by absorbing all questions about the matter into the black hole...
There is also Steve Jobs' NeXTStep 486. Requiring even more computer power to run than NT, NeXTStep brings the much-acclaimed object-oriented interface of the now-defunct NeXT computer to PCs. While it probably features the best user environment of any computer, its hefty demands on the underlying hardware have kept the PC masses away...