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...were a quintet riding the new-wave crest, but the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson and the recent resignation of vocalist Cindy Wilson have dwindled the group to a trio. Still, as their seventh album, Good Stuff, demonstrates, their talent has by no means diminished. What were once "rapid-fire three-way vocals," as singer Kate Pierson calls them, are now back-and-forth dialogues between Pierson and Fred Schneider. Familiar motifs abound: hot pants, UFOs and mother earth. The music on the album is just as colorful as its cover design, with lyrics full of sex and in-your...
...allergic to the substance placed there. Ordinary citizens wondering whether their clogged nasal passages and sneezes are signaling an allergic attack or simply a cold can perform their own quick diagnosis. If there is no fever, if the mucous secretions are clear and if sneezes occur in rapid, multiple sequence, an allergy is almost certainly involved...
...projects. Ernie C., a friend since Crenshaw High, started a rock band with Ice-T's support. Now they've joined forces to create a new band, Body Count, with Ice- T as the lead singer. Ice-T is a rock and heavy-metal fan of long standing, and, rapid-fire, he rattles off his favorites: Black Flag, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Hendrix, Slayer. "I like the aggressiveness and anger of hard rock," he says, and he proved it last summer by appearing with a collection of metal bands on the successful Lollapalooza tour...
Rising prices are also being fueled by Baghdad's own overheated production of bank notes. To cover government salaries and the cost of postwar reconstruction, Iraq has been printing money at a rapid clip, on cheaper paper, which makes counterfeiting easier. Currency dealers in New York City say that some genuine Iraqi dinars are now so sloppily printed that on first inspection they appear to be inept forgeries...
...Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Luis Fernandez-Sifuentes says he has difficulties coping with rapid changes in book availability...