Word: hives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who want a CD they can get up and dance to, not to worry; all of Moby's work on this album is not quite so heavy. The funky "I Like to Score" and "First Cool Hive" are catchy tunes, as is the "James Bond Theme"--a high-energy, danceable new track that will be released as a single in the near future. The most intriguing thing about Moby that manifests itself on this album is his musical flexibility, which is evident in the way his work on this album ranges from the sweeping mystical ambient-style of "Grace...
...hour and a half before the tip-off last Wednesday, the doors of the Charlotte Coliseum swung open, and America came pouring in. Families, senior citizens, teenage girls and boys--still damp from the rains that had pelted the Carolinas--entered the arena popularly known as the Hive and began buzzing around the souvenir stands and the floor on which the players practiced. Charlotte was about to play New York, and the excitement was as palpable as it would be before any game between the Hornets and the Knicks...
...mumble numbly. Sensing my confusion, my guides point out that this is just a suburb of the main Microsoft headquarters, which is 25 times as large and looks, when I finally see it, about the size of Minneapolis. Around 20,000 Microserfs work there. Some people call it the Hive. I yawn, feigning a lack of interest. The yawn might have sounded like a moan. I don't know...
...finds themselves wanting to know what makes New York what it is "Maybe it's different if you were born here. Maybe then you are deaf to the buzzing and the beating of wings. But I had come from out of town, and to me New York was a hive. You could not just live here. You had to be somebody, do something it didn't matter what. You were not part of the city unless you were on a bus or a subway and on you way to an office or a factory or a schoolroom...
...some guy who flosses his teeth all the time. They're rich, sick, steeped in shame and caffeine, and "in the heat of sale, they needed to keep talking, and they said whatever came to them, as long as it was just color commentary ." So airless is this hive, it is not till near the book's midpoint that we learn that the office action, as distinct from the global flow of byte-driven hysteria, takes place in San Francisco. Some of the brighter salesmen muse about quitting, but to do what? As this amiable tour of the information economy...