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Unheard of. Milli Vanilli, a dance-music duo that sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks and speaks English like the two Teutonic muscleheads on Saturday Night Live, has done something boggling. The group, scorned by critics and adored by clubgoers and devotees of MTV, has scored three No. 1 singles off its debut album, Girl You Know It's True. It has also sold 10 million copies worldwide (7 million in the U.S.), put together a video compilation of its greatest hits that sold 100,000 copies in a month, and copped three American Music Awards in January. Last week...
...growing misalliance of Japan and America. The record is not only big themed, it is big fun. That combination of intellectual ambition and musical serendipity can be recognized as the work of Van Dyke Parks by his legion of . . . oh, say, 782 fans. We're not talking Milli Vanilli here. But we are on the subject of someone rather terrific...
...MIGHT expect the venerable professor of the "Ten Minute University", who visited Boston earlier this month, to be a guy who spouts off trivia by the milli-second. Actually, he is just your average shmo from Long Island and has the plodding/whiny speech to prove...
...Milli-seconds later, the Yale fencer had stabbed his Harvard opponent to capture the tying touch. The exuberant crowd had drowned out the official shout to halt the match. The Elis went on to capture a 14-13 victory over Harvard in sudden death overtime at Malkin Athletic Center last night...
...could effectively and cheaply process information in a milli-second that would normally take 10 minutes," says Jones...