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...Inmates have been found with razors, money and pens sewn into their clothing even after repeated searches. If a suspected terrorist should manage to get beyond the 8-ft.-high razor wire, the procedure is simple. "We tell 'em three times to halt," says Specialist Tim Vernon, 22, of Sumner, Wash. "And if they don't, we open fire. No way we're going to chase them through the minefields...
...Inmates have been found with razors, money and pens sewn into their clothing even after repeated searches. If a suspected terrorist should manage to get beyond the 8-ft.-high razor wire, the procedure is simple. "We tell 'em three times to halt," says Specialist Tim Vernon, 22, of Sumner, Wash. "And if they don't, we open fire. No way we're going to chase them through the minefields...
...Ceremony, Substance 1987, Movement, Brotherhood, Republic. Their Best Of album simply has a blue question mark on the cover. For these reasons people still ask, “Who sings that?” when Bizarre Love Triangle’s bassline bounces out of a stereo or when Sumner croons “I feel so extraordinary” on “True Faith—94.” New Order have always created music, not celebrity. It’s more than likely everyone has heard a New Order song, but few know of the band...
...Miles an Hour” (the second single) and “Turn My Way” with guest vocals by New Order admirer (and former Smashing Pumpkins frontman) Billy Corgan are forthright rock songs with snarling basslines from Hook, quixotic and affected lyrics from Sumner and even a guitar solo thrown in. Of course the synthesizers and synthetic drum beats haven’t been abandoned, but they aren’t the album’s showpiece. Instead, these elements become integrated parts of the whole sound as illustrated on “Vicious Streak?...
...over the hill after its members have passed 25. This theme is not lost on the aware listener—after doing the math, one realizes that the band members’ respective ages hover around those of our parents. On “Primitive Notion,” Sumner sings, “It doesn’t take a lot to confuse me / I’m not aware of the passing of time / And I’d like to say to those who accuse me / Would you do it while you look...