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...just got to move to the beat are failing about, but no one comes close to bumping into anyone else. Guitarist Roger Miller blasts out thick, distorted chords, one piled on top of another for a sound that is at once 1969 techno-pop. Sound man Martin Swope stoops over a mixing board near the back of the dance floor, recording Miller's efforts, scrambling things around, and then feeding the whole mess back through the P.A. so that it sounds as if there's an army of guitarists performing. Very spontaneous...
Burma isn't seeking the true spirit of rock and roll along the lines of the 1976 British punk revolution. The sound is contemporary, but it isn't really different. Martin Swope is no Brian Eno, nor does he pretend to be. His goal at the moment is scraping together enough dough for a new sound system. Redefining the art isn't even on the agenda. Above all else, Burma is flexible, the way New Wave is flexible...
...them reassurance that the laser scanner is doing its work properly, and most people seem pleased enough. Says Peter Scialabba, 37: "More stores should have them. Lots of times you wonder if you are getting the right change, but this eliminates the wonder." One dissenting voice belongs to Linda Swope, an Albertson's customer who complains about one part of the supermarket experience that no machine can make pleasant. Says she: "It's disgusting. No one wants to hear that one lousy steak costs...
...BERLIN BLOCKADE. The wartime Soviet-American friendship soon hardened into peacetime animosity-the cold war, in the writer Herbert Bayard Swope's coinage-when the Soviet Union organized its postwar system of Eastern European satellite states. The U.S. countered with its Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Swope Parkway two women on the way to pick up their husbands at the Armco Steel plant took refuge on top of their car. But it overturned after being battered by abandoned floating cars and the torrents of water; one woman was rescued by six men who formed a human chain to pull her to safety, but her sister-in-law drowned. The 23 other dead were found, said one reporter, "all over the place...