Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amazing. Its African-inspired movement is fluid and stunning, with the dancers forming shapes evocative of religious fervor, from prayer tableaux to crucifixion. The dancers move regally in gorgeous unison as the light bathes the stage, moving from sunlight to moonlight. The joy of the final church meeting segment is infectious, and carries through the ending curtain call. Tuesday's audience was wildly receptive and rightfuly...
...implications of the 32-bit memory model is increased efficiency. Applications are no longer constrained by the cramped 64K segment limit. Instead, rewritten applications have a continuous ("flat") view of a four gig memory world. And therein lies the catch. Applications must be revised--which can be a few minutes of bit twiddling or many months of code pounding--to be savvy in the 32-bit world...
...discussion of the "degraded other," a segment of society which is scapegoated as the cause of societal problems, was the major focus of the early remarks of both Lerner and West...
...time as a teenager on the road and getting her high-school diploma through a correspondence course. In 1989 she and her band, Los Dinos, got their big break-a recording contract with giant EMI--and then began to ride the wave of Tejano music, now the fastest- growing segment of the Hispanic recording business. Her father still manages the band, which includes her brother and husband...
...much publicized tragedy. Three days after appearing as a guest on the Jenny Jones show, Scott Amedure, 32, was shot to death in front of his trailer at a mobile-home park in Michigan. His alleged killer is John Schmitz, who had appeared on the same Jones segment. Schmitz was told he would be confronted by a "secret admirer"; the shock of discovering that the person who had a crush on him was a man, Schmitz told police later, had "eaten away" at him. The show's producers insist that Schmitz was informed his admirer could...