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...audiences may not have yet warmed to the group's sound is the prevalence of bizarre non-sequiturs inserted into the lyrics, seemingly only for shock value. In the opening bars of the third track, "Heroine," Anderson sings, "She walks in beauty like the night/Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers/ Pornographic and tragic in black and white/ My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour." While some might deem this cacophony of metaphors poetic, the sheer blender-mixed quality disturbs the song's coherence. This choppiness makes it difficult the type of emotional kinship that seems...
...trio crawled back outside and resealed the tunnel entrance. "Not only to keep people out," Chauvet explains, "but to return the airflow to what it had been before; a change in the interior climate could ruin whatever was inside." Six days later they returned with better lighting and plastic sheets that they spread about to avoid disturbing artifacts on the cavern floors...
Since December, plywood boards and black plastic sheets have covered the bagel shop's exterior windows and doors. The interior entrance stays locked...
...been derided as a military-industrial boondoggle, a locus of Pentagon waste and trumped-up test data. But now some "positive" news: the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization at the Pentagon reports that the $30 billion the U.S. has already invested in Star Wars has generated a new type of plastic that will keep home- delivered pizzas "hot and crisp for two hours." Americans will eat roughly 8 billion pizzas this year.* That works...
...sixth anniversary of the explosion aboard Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will begin installing a new plastic explosives detector technology that might have prevented that and other terrorist bombings. The $8 million move -- first disclosed last week in TIME Daily -- means that U.S. airports with international service will install it this year, with a FAA verdict on additional sites to follow by early 1996. The detectors, which use X-rays and CAT scan-like technology to scan passenger luggage, is now in use at Brussels and London airports...