Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spares or test vehicles. Under the compromise, the Air Force can order production of twelve to 21 more MX's in fiscal 1987. The Nunn amendment also states that Congress could in the future reconsider deploying a larger number of missiles if some more "mobile and deceptive" basing mode should be devised. The amendment was passed by a 78-20 vote. "I don't view this as the end of the MX," Nunn said afterward. "I view it as the end of the MX in fixed silos...
...stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art . . . using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning." . That could be the credo of Mavis Gallant's most affecting heroine...
...band with such a cynical outlook would attract little attention outside of the self-conscious New Wave demimonde; but for less sophisticated ears. Depeche Mode embodies the cool kinetic madness of the best beat-box music, only with the less aggression...
...Mode's monolithic melodies, abetted by clever consumer-culture sound effects (dropping ping-pong balls, snipping scissors) and super-resonant production, captures the finely-ground precision of the motionmusik, and added to the heartbreak of frustated adolescent romance, how could it miss...
...Depeche Mode's rare appearance at the Orpheum a few months back was a pretty depressing affair if you weren't looking for a high school pick-up. With most of the musical action programmed into the array of synthesizers and organs, vocalist Gore was left prancing about like a second-string Rod Stewart, with material that could never approach the Rod's exquisitely terrible haunchraunch. The rest of the band was strapped to their machinery, tapping out melodies with one, two, and sometimes even three fingers. Depeche Mode gave good beat, but in a frenetic concert atmosphere pumped...