Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Returning Crimson editors are invited back to 14 Plympton St. each and every afternoon this week. Drop by, say hello and help us with our stuff...
Spilled milk may be worth crying about in at least one instance: when the stuff happens to land on a floppy disk. These sensitive magnetic devices, which carry the software and data used in personal computers, can be rendered useless by a tiny amounts of errant dust or goo. When that happens, the user's work is lost. The problem inspired Polaroid, a new contender in the nearly $1 billion market for floppies, to make the bold claim last March that it could bring any of its damaged disks back to life for no charge. Last week the company boasted...
...told that other bombs have been planted in three U.S. cities and will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff of spy thrillers. But, warns Theodore Taylor, a former Princeton University physicist who once designed compact nuclear weapons and now is a Washington consultant, the acquisition of plutonium bombs small enough to be smuggled into the U.S. is "a real threat...
...Heady stuff. But throughout the years of obscurity, Glass's strong self- confidence kept his spirits high. "There may be people out there who still don't like my music, but I don't think they can ignore it any longer," observes the composer...
CLOTHES. I like to combine things but in a humorous way, like a uniform skirt and fishnets. Sometimes I like really expensive things. I like Vivienne & Westwood, Commes des Garcons and Jean Paul Gaultier. But I get a lot of stuff in thrift shops too. I really love dresses like Marilyn Monroe wore, those '50s dresses that were really tailored to fit a voluptuous body. A lot of stuff made now is for an androgynous figure, and it doesn't look good on me. I have always sort of elaborated with my dance clothes. I used to live...