Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shop Boys have always made erudite dance music. Few other groups, after all, would take a song title from an Anthony Trollope novel (1993's "Can You Forgive Her?"). In Nightlife, their first studio album since 1996's Bilingual, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe stick to their forte...
...After the first round, the retrieving system spits out the Professor's heavy black ball. It rolls along the metal shoot until it rests next to FM's neon green, glittery-swirled ball, and the video screen above our heads plays a loud computer graphic of a stick figure getting a strike and celebrating by leaping around in the air. The figure's dance is intermittently interrupted by flashes of a red X. The sequence holds our attention for a few seconds and then fades back into the scoreboard where a smaller red x appears in Professor Putnam's first...
...moment, contemplating this phenomenon. A baseball fan holds up a sign punning a player's name on one screen, and on the other, is that blinking arrow, now pointing to "FM." A few forgettable moments later, the pins are reset. And while a slightly less enthusiastic computerized stick figure performs in the background, Putnam eases us into his argument about the deficit of social capital...
...that note, we bowl a few more rounds, continually watching the stick figure graphic interpret our skills in a celebratory or teasing way. Eventually, with half of the frames filled, the score has evened out a bit, and Putnam leads by 3 points...
...Interrupting Putnam on his roll, the computerized stick figure cuts in with a merciless dramatization of a gutter ball. "I bowled a one", my fellow FMer says sheepishly as he sits back down in his plastic chair...