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None of these perfervid cultural make-overs, however, has driven the music itself to any heights of personal expression. "Chemical material don't you shudder?/ Something awful is happening we don't suspect" is one kick-butt refrain from Takagi Kan's Hip Hip Fork. "We can't control MSG/ Our tongue has become paralyzed." Takagi declares that his song is mainly "about MSG companies trying to make a lot of money in Asia," though there seems little risk that he will get boiled as Ice T did in America over his Cop Killer track...
HURRICANES AS WICKED AS ANdrew are thought to come along perhaps twice a century. Earthquakes shudder on and off, but the big, continent-cracking convulsions tend to space themselves out over generations. Biblical floods are rare, like killer tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and the other cyclical calls to humility in the face of nature's destructive power. But last week it somehow seemed that the clock was running fast: Typhoon Omar menaced Guam, a tornado attacked Wisconsin, fires burned out of control in California, a four- story tidal wave in Nicaragua dissolved whole neighborhoods, and the residents of South Florida...
...test((s))" for public office? the Founding Fathers would want to know. What about Tom + Jefferson's conviction that it is possible for a nonbeliever to be a moral person, "find((ing)) incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise"? Even George Washington must shudder in his sleep to hear the constant emphasis on "Judeo-Christian values." It was he who wrote, "We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land . . . every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart...
Convinced that every extra second is of value, Japan has invested mightily in these systems. Originally such devices were not tripped until the ground began to shudder -- scant notice indeed, though enough to prevent the derailment of a speeding bullet train. Such simple motion-detecting systems are now used throughout Japan and in parts of California to halt subway trains and nudge elevators to the nearest floor when ground motion exceeds a certain threshold. The Alaska pipeline is similarly equipped for instant shutdown...
HOUSTON--Massachusetts alternate John Harris remembers 1986 all too well. And it's not the Red Sox flop that makes him shudder...