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...list the two expansion teams due in 1998, we're down to 24 teams. I would love to remove more, but I don't want to irk anyone from Florida or Anaheim...
...Socratic dialogue; his washerwomen have quicker wits and sharper tongues than Oscar Wilde, and all his characters indulge a fondness for spontaneous poetry in the throes of battle, rape and torture. Nor did the author subscribe to total proletarian emancipation: Subcurrents of aristocratic patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted as the acid-proof test for actors, directors and technical crew: It calls for snap transitions from jovial wedding festivities to ghoulish capering around severed heads to whiling the day away on the rack. Even with cast and crew in high...
...artist Andres Serrano. One of Serrano's pieces was a photo of a plastic crucifix immersed in the artist's urine -- a fairly conventional piece of postsurrealist blasphemy, which, though likely to have less effect on established religion than a horsefly on a tank, was bound to irk some people. Mapplethorpe's show was to contain some icy, polished and (to most straights and, one surmises, at least a few Republican gays) deeply repulsive photos of S and M queens doing this and that to one another...
Microsoft is not the only software manufacturer in dutch. Many of its competitors are also having trouble getting their products onto store shelves. These companies are finding that developing successive generations of established software programs is a complicated and time-consuming business. The delays are beginning to irk mainframe- and personal-computer makers, whose powerful new machines cannot be fully used without up-to-date software. Among the more worrisome recent delays: Ashton-Tate's new version of a financial program hit stores three months behind schedule. And Lotus is almost a year late with its long-promised improved...
Gladys Van Horne, another Martins Ferry native in attendance, suggests that some people around town may be keeping a tight lid on their natural elation. "They're proud, I'm sure -- more than might express it." Hardly anything in the poet's canon has the power to irk or alarm this woman, currently an editor for the Wheeling News-Register. "No, because I know all that happened," she says simply. "We were not intellectuals," Van Horne cautions when quizzed about Wright's near total early obscurity. "We were a coal- mining and a steel-mill town. That's where...