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...Message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 2. "Rapper's Delight" The Sugar Hill Gang 3. "Rebel Without a Pause" Public Enemy 4. "Rock Box" Run-DMC 5. "F--- Tha Police" N.W.A...
...Some of the Pokemon are brought to life by "little people" in costume, and others are puppets, but most are just immobile dummies that get pushed around the stage by members of the chorus. As each new Pokemon appeared on stage a high-pitched roar of delight filled the auditorium. (I am pleased to say that Jigglypuff, my personal favorite, makes an appearance...
...Gore must be shaking with restrained delight. Why, you ask? Right now, it doesn't seem like he has much to chuckle about. His post-convention bounce (which put him nearly 10 points ahead of Bush) has evened out into a statistical neck-and-neck. Yes, it looks like the debates will fall out in his favor, but Dubya could easily come from behind armed with the "character issue" and take home the pie. The election looks to be the tightest and most competitive in recent history. So why is Gore so happy? Because finally, finally, finally...
...blocks. Finally, the repealing of the 150-ft (46-m) height restriction in 1957 saw the fiercest frenzy of redevelopment and the erection of the skyscrapers that now mark the CBD. The Rocks area of Sydney Cove, thronged with tourists buying opals and boomerangs, and an aesthetic and financial delight to the city fathers, was saved from destruction in the early 1970s only through the intervention of the Builders' Labourers Federation and its members' "green ban" refusal to perform demolition work. The old buildings of Woolloomooloo owe their existence to a similar -but depressingly rare-triumph of the popular will...
Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...