Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest release, "Mesopotamia," a six-song "mini-disk," provides the first evidence that the group craves artistic progression. The work is a turn away from the undirected insanity of the first two albums to a sort of directed insanity, governed by David Byrne, the group's new producer and ployrhythm maestro of Talking Heads fame. Byrne seems to have effected a tilt by the band to the funk side of its background. "Mesopotamia" doesn't give up the fun of "The B-52's" and "Wild Planet". It merely is a rechanneling of the 52's focus from outrageous melodies...
...only 30 seconds later, Dartmouth left winger Julia Nyelifted the disk over goalie Tate's stacked pads to send the contest into the nerve-wracking extra session...
Copying an unprotected computer program is only slightly more difficult than making a tape recording. Instruction books for personal computers always give instructions on how to make a duplicate of an important program. This is essential because an accident like spilling coffee on a disk can wipe out all the information...
...first tally came 11:41 into the match, when Ed Rauseo flipped the disk from 15 feet out past a sleeping Davidner. The Huskies came back with renewed pressure, but the opportunistic Eagles created a three-on-one break. Jeff Cowles took it all the way and best Davidner from the faceoff circle...
...College Observatory, has designed an ultraviolet coronograph for the space shuttle that will take advantage of Columbia's position above the earth's atmosphere. A coronograph is a telescope engineered specifically for observing the corona, the outer atmosphere of the sun, by blocking the light of the sun's disk. The corona, an area of extremely low density and high temperature, can be most clearly observed naturally during a solar eclipse. Kohl's coronograph would pick up the ultraviolet light emitted by the corona and analyse it to reveal the density and velocity of the particles in the corona...