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...listen to this music--you confront it. The synthetic noise-scape is a mine field which explodes, throwing out sharp pieces of musical shrapnel accompanied by lyrics that evoke a vision of industrial Hell. "Deserted digging through/Splinters from cracking boards/Caught upon fingers dancing in darkness/Pain shoots smack down any hole...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Skinny Puppy Howling at Your Door | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Here is this unlikely new country superstar, with his acetylene eyes and chipmunk cheeks, stalking the concert stage, acting up, acting crazy, climbing the rigging and blitzing the crowd with bravura. He's part Jolson and part Jagger, pulling stunts that smack more of the Fillmore than the Opry, and the audience hollers for him, feasts on him, lets itself go nuts with him. Nicely nuts. Mannerly nuts. Country nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garth Brooks: Friends In Low Places | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...then, take a brief look at Carnessecca's reign at St. John's Despite sitting smack in the middle of a basketball hotland, Looie has never won it all. In fact, he's only reached the Final Four once, while every other year, his St. John's team slips into the tournament and gets knocked out by the third round. His central weakness is his inability to accept the fact that great basketball talent lies outside the concrete jungles of New York City. His team is invariably composed of Big Apple-bred players, a fact which limits the depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Likable Ethnicites | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...testimony by other witnesses, prosecutor Moira Lasch has suddenly called the accuser to the stand. But Furnad, who is running the control room, has just learned that Terry Anderson, the last American hostage to be released, is scheduled to make his first appearance in Damascus at 3:30 p.m. -- smack in the middle of CNN's trial coverage. What should Furnad do: continue to cover the long-awaited testimony of the accuser in the most publicized rape trial in history or cut away to Terry Anderson's press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the World of CNN | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...only one point did he offer a hint of anything that might smack of a personal relationship with Hill. "I would drive her home and sometimes stop in and have a Coke or a beer or something and continue arguing about politics for maybe 45 minutes to an hour," he said. "But I never thought anything of it." Later, Thomas elaborated on this aspect of their relationship by stating that there were a "number of instances" when he visited Hill's home while working with her at the Education Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Said, He Said | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

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