Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic passages that take their own sweet time to work themselves out; jangling, spacey guitar work--all of it threaded together by singer Thom Yorke's yearning tenor, hitting and holding notes with almost operatic emotion. The lyrics display an X-Files-ish romanticism: one song, Subterranean Homesick Alien, is about a man who longs to be abducted by UFOs...
...where flaws--the crooked nose and crooked teeth she is so proud of--only betray an uncommon beauty. Then there is the improbable match of slender youth and that voice--an astonishingly versatile instrument ranging from soul-shattering yodels to the most eloquent of whispers to arch Cole Porter-ish recitative...
...programmers were remarkably successful in making Deep Blue's play resemble the best aspects of human chess players. Grandmaster commentators repeatedly referred to its moves as "creative" and as being indicative of "a deep understanding of chess." In fact, Kasparov, who trained for this match by preparing against "computer-ish" moves, thought Deep Blue's moves were so unlike the typical computer that he has accused the IBM team of tinkering with Deep Blue during the game...
DIED. DAVID DOYLE, 70-ish, who played John Bosley, assistant to the invisible boss of the heroines of Charlie's Angels, through the show's entire 1976-81 run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...Quakers were just another basketball team, with one pretty good player (Michael Jordan), a good shooting guard (Garret Kreitz) and a bus load of 6'6" forward-ish types...