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Culture Club whips up a smooth, seamless sound that proudly picks every pocket of pop for inspiration: reggae, soul, country and western, mainstream rock. The results are whimsical, joyous and occasionally mysterious detonations of apparently casual inspiration. Very cool, very catchy and, to borrow a favorite word of the lead singer's, never naf. "Naf' stands for out of it, rotten, done over and overdone-and not, clearly, for Culture Club, which seems, at this somewhat disjointed juncture on the hit parade, to define the very core of contemporary...
...mayor's paying out his pocket," McKinnon said, adding that the trip would cost "several thousand dollars...
...work and children at school, telephone manufacturers believe a variety of emergency and remote feature.8 will be hot sellers. AT&T offers a fire-alert system linking smoke alarms to phones that will dial two numbers when smoke is detected ($199 a system, $29 a link). A pocket-size medical transmitter ($49) alerts a unit ($199) that dials up to two numbers if a patient needs immediate attention. Gulf + Western's Sensaphone ($250) monitors room temperatures, sound levels and electrical systems. If a room's temperature rises above or drops below a preset level when a householder...
...expect those who read and enjoy the Eli Propaganda for The Game in the years to come may read more stirring declarations by Giamatti like this year's. Scenes like that of quarterback Mike Curtin being sacked by the Crimson before he can even drop back into the pocket, and of Gizzi mysteriously escaping the embraces of two or three Bulldogs every time he scrambled with the ball--they will contribute to the Eli character...
...England and the U.S., a small army of mediums appeared to read the future, speak with deceased relatives and pocket very material fees. With a detached, only faintly ironic tone, Brandon notes some of the more bizarre assurances offered by these experts in the occult: one seer reported that alcohol and cigars were present in paradise; Doyle, after consultation with psychics, wrote that in heaven, "nutrition is of a very light and delicate order." Golf, he thought, was likely to be played...