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...Neuromancer, a burned-out, drug-addicted street hustler named Case, inhabits a sleazy INTERZONE on the fringes of a megacorporate global village where all transactions are carried out in New Yen. There he encounters Molly, a sharp-edged beauty with reflective lenses grafted to her eye sockets and retractable razor blades implanted in her fingers. They are hired by a mysterious employer who offers to fix Case's damaged nerves so he can once again enter cyberspace -- a term Gibson invented. Soon Case discovers that he is actually working for an AI (artificial intelligence) named Wintermute, who is trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunk! | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...same, U.S. Marines stepped up security checks and erected razor-wire barriers around the sites Bush toured during his sweep through the capital, Baidoa and Bale Dogle. Troops also accelerated their search for concealed weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curious George | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...female first-year was assaulted by a man wielding a razor blade last Thursday afternoon on her way from 29 Garden St. to the Science Center...

Author: By Evan J. Eason, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: 29 Garden St. Resident Attacked With Razor | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...turned towards me, reached out a hand towards my neck, held for about two seconds and then I ran off. There was a slash in my jacket from the razor blade," she said...

Author: By Evan J. Eason, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: 29 Garden St. Resident Attacked With Razor | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

Julian Cope has nobody to blame but himself. With his psychedelic horn-driven post-punk group The Teardrop Explodes, and on his seven subsequent solo releases, Cope has proven his ability to combine high intellectual weirdness with a razor-sharp pop sensibility. So how come the best singer/songwriter to come out of Liverpool since, say, 1962 has nothing but a half-handful of U.K. hits to show for his 13-year career? Simple: Cope seems to have no idea when he's being a genius and when he's recording pretentious dreck. Well, thank God for anthologists. Floored Genius...

Author: By Jordan Ellenberg, | Title: New Music | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

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