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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lyra, is located about 26 light years away, the distance light would travel in that span of time, or about 150 trillion miles. Scientists believe the star to be about twice the size and 60 times as bright as the sun, with the particles extending in an envelope or disk about 7.4 billion miles in radius, approximately twice the distance from the sun to the orbit of its outermost planet...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Vega: Just Another Star? | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

That New Order has a healthy maudlin streak within its self-important consciousness is displayed on the radio single "Age of Consent." While the song works musically and the few whoops and falsetto yips from Albrecht are a much-needed change from the somberness of the rest of the disk, it is lyrically awkward...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Hype or Substance? | 8/5/1983 | See Source »

...Lost in Space" is a veritable orgy of chants, raps, layered electronic drum rhythms and bass lines, and the now cliche but totally appropriate get-down-get-funky mentality. Buy this disk for the mindblowing radio single "Space Cowboy" and keep repeating it for a surprisingly consistent album of electro-funk workouts...

Author: By Michael W. Huschorn, | Title: Funkmatized | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

...least an ear, introduce more novelty. If you can't think up anything new, get drunk with Brian Eno and find out his ideas. Adam Ant started out on the right track with his first two American albums, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming. On the new disk, however, he slits New Wave in the throat...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Hardcore Curriculum | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...warmups he would at one point put his stick aside and have his teammates blast low shots at him, which he would practice stopping with his stick-hand blocker. In a game, he could often stop a low shot and no amount of jamming or pushing could shove the disk any further...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Beanpot '82: Eagles Fall in Final Again | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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