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Despite the rather morbid topics, the music has an almost life-like flexibility to it. Like magic, Alice in Chains knows when the attention of ordinary mortals tends to wane; that's when they fire off a jagged riff, or slow down so that Staley's guitar can emerge from a mess of noise and cry out a few soul-twisting notes...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Alice in Chains Digs Out More Grunge | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...relationship was starting to wane anyhow. Dylan's arrival sort of resuscitated it for a while; we had something in common, co-parenting the kids. But when Satchel came along, it drifted down to a polite and cordial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart Wants What It Wants | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...could lavish time and money and attention on the children, probably more than many orthodox parents do. He'd get up at 5 and religiously make it over there seven days a week." And Farrow was devoted to his devotion. But after Satchel's birth, the romance began to wane. Their partnership has been platonic for four years, Allen says, and it is not known what efforts either party made for sexual companionship in the interim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow: Scenes From A Breakup | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...which represents and transmits information in strings of 0s and 1s that ensure accuracy, also comes equipped with a built-in computerized noise suppressor. Analog systems, which translate sound waves captured by microphones into electronic representations -- or analogs -- amplify the background noise along with the voice, and wax < and wane depending on atmospheric conditions. Using digital technology, the new phones achieve quality equal to what earthlings get calling across town, even with the faintest signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Office Goes Airborne | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...early 1970s to the mid-1980s -- have largely lost their governmental support. Iran, Syria, Libya and Iraq are less willing -- or less able -- to provide them with money, equipment and support for their operations. What has become known as state-sponsored terrorism is, at least for now, on the wane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Changes Its Spots | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

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