Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year's dance single "Temptation" was the best of New Order's early forays into disco and probably the best electronic dance music yet made. Its sobriety and minimalism could not hide an incredibly catchy hook and oblique lament that could bring a tear to the eye even while you danced...
...Brand's novel solutions is to go to the networks. These are the hundreds of systems, many of them formed by amateur enthusiasts, that hook computer users together via telephone lines, permitting their members to exchange information, engage in long-distance debates or just gossip. The networks are in effect electronic bulletin boards. "They are the 20th century equivalent of the coffeeshops of Samuel Johnson's day," Brand has said. "Back then, the intelligentsia got loaded on coffee and tried to impress themselves. We'll get loaded on technology and do the same thing...
...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...
Sometimes it seems that success fathers its own problems. In its campaign to hook smuggled drugs, the Reagan Administration has claimed some impressive catches: since establishing a regional interdiction center in South Florida in March 1982, it says that cocaine and marijuana seizures there are up 54% and 23% respectively, drug arrests have risen by 27%, and the street value of intercepted dope amounts to around $5 billion. Smugglers, however, have risen to the challenge by trafficking in smaller, harder-to-detect loads and by moving some off-loading operations to other places, including California and the Atlantic Coast...
...Exhibition of 1851. The N.Y.Y.C. insisted that the first challengers sail in solitude against a fleet of defenders and, in the interest of good seaworthy construction, travel to the site on their own bottoms. From 1870 until 1930, the race was set in Lower New York Bay, around Sandy Hook, where local knowledge was crucial. Though the visitors' hardships have gradually, very gradually, lessened through the years, the America's Cup still stands alone as the paragon of all home-course advantages. In 24 competitions, held every three years since 1974, the U.S. has never come close...