Word: fuzzing
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...notes that opened Learning How To Smile. While that first volume was a sweet and eclectic (and perhaps corny) manifestation of Art Alexakis' nostalgia, its successor rips those dreamy sentiments to pieces without even bothering to pause for breath. From its bitter opening to its bittersweet conclusion, the distorted fuzz-guitars scarcely let up, striking and churning in sullen anger, often in direct competition with Alexakis' voice...
...against hair: Vaniqa (VAN-i-ka), a prescription cream recently approved by the FDA that zaps unwanted facial hair on women. The impact can be dramatic, but possible side effects include rashes, redness and acne. And don't toss that SensorExcel just yet. Vaniqa doesn't entirely replace regular fuzz control...
...make the VCR work. It swallows the tape in a businesslike way - so far, so good; it shows promising bright preliminary fuzz and static, like an orchestra tuning up... and then it goes abruptly black...
...wouldn't be willing to say for certain, though, that the sudden prominence of so many peach-fuzz millionaires has not raised the angst quotient among the parents of my younger friends. Twenty years ago, baby boomers were written about as if every one of them had as a life goal making enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard...
...process, in which the bad guys are zapped off video screens at the push of a button. As in a game of Doom, the videos shown during NATO media briefings give no sense of the shattered bones and ripped flesh that follow when the bomb camera image turns to fuzz. And not surprisingly, the alliance prefers not to show any footage from the bombs that may have strayed from their targets...