Word: heaps
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WASHINGTON: Both sides in the war between Ken Starr and the Clinton administration got a heap of ammunition Wednesday. First, a General Accounting Office audit of the prosecutor's Whitewater probe shows Starr spending $30 million in taxpayer dollars over four years. That makes Starr's the most spendthrift of the six independent counsel probes now under way, and means his probe is nearing the $40 million cost of the most expensive independent counsel probe ever conducted, Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation...
...like Oasis' "Wonder-wall." The semi-title track "Polythene Girl" and single "Cement" stand out as acceptable contributions to the category they generally get lumped in: poppy British space-rock. On the other hand, the rest of the album is just more fodder for the genre's growing scrap heap. Feeder, a threesome, seem to focus on song lyrics about drugs and problems with girlfriends, but hey, who doesn't? All in all, Polythene is a rather tepid collection of songs, causing one to wonder what the British press could possibly be thinking...
...mockingit, defusing it with the same sarcasm thatdeflates everything he touches. Just what BlackGrape believes is Stupid, Stupid, Stupid isobvious. Laughing as they rocket over the egoismof grunge and the self-conscious stylism of Oasisand Blur, Black Grape has no inclination not toalso leave political music in the scrap heap. Whenit comes to humor, there is intelligence in seeingthe commonalties between politically correctnessand training wheels. In the middle of "Lonely," adrunk Shaun Ryder makes an edifying "It's up toyou" speech; in an interview he said he only hopedpeople didn't take him seriously...
VanDerveer has endured every coach's nightmare throughout the past week. On Saturday, during her team's final regular season game against Oregon Sate, Nygaard, a fifth-year senior, went down in a heap and a subsequent MRI test revealed a ruptured...
Something fundamental was happening to communism as well. Reagan's 1982 prediction that it was headed for "the ash heap of history" was lost in a rising sea of angst, captured in a 1983 made-for-TV movie, The Day After, that dramatized the clinical horrors of a nuclear exchange. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. had broken off all arms-control negotiations and were arming rival sides in shooting wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua (whose anticommunist guerrillas would play a central role in the great Iran-contra scandal of the Reagan years...