Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the general thrust behind the Suns seems to be an investigation of how little structure a song can have and still be a song, Big Dipper insert their bursts of oddity within relatively normal frameworks. All the songs on Dipper's debut EP, Boo-Boo, are vaguely recognizable forms of straight rock and roll, country or pop balladry. "Faith Healer," for example is a conventional rock tune made interesting by a contorted and bizarre riff, seemingly some sort of comment on the TV preacher of the title...
Rarely has the traditional "Hey (insert name of opposing goalie here) you're not a sieve, you're a funnel..." cheer been chanted louder. And most of the fans lingered in the stands for five minutes after the final buzzer in order to watch the Harvard band perform...
...should be admitted here that Breaking Circus also get points for humor, including liner notes presented in the form of a drinking game on the insert. The Ice Machine, however, is no joke. It is a true album, as distinguished from a lengthy and usually expensive collection of potential hit singles. Along with Big Black and Naked Raygun, Breaking Circus may cause a mass migration to the Midwest...
Messages can also be conveniently changed. Thus it is possible to modify old versions of Microsoft Word to display "Time to trek back to the Quad for the $%?&*! master disk" instead of "Please insert the Word master disk...
...Using recombinant DNA techniques, they plan to make retroviruses harmless by removing key genes, and to endow the viruses with other genes -- the ones lacking or inoperative in people with genetic diseases. These re-engineered retroviruses would be employed as vectors that would invade the appropriate human cells and insert the healthy genes correctly into the cells...