From ksuzuki@uni-hamburg.de Thu Sep 05 00:35:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!ksuzuki From: ksuzuki@uni-hamburg.de (Kirsty Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Sep05.003555.8931@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:35:55 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- === Kirsty Suzuki === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From dstewart@panix.com Fri Sep 06 17:44:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!dstewart From: dstewart@panix.com (Diego Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Sep06.174455.1849@panix.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 17:44:55 GMT References: <1996Sep05.003555.8931@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep05.003555.8931@uni-hamburg.de>, ksuzuki@uni-hamburg.de (Kirsty Suzuki) writes: > Looking back at the complete 180-degree shift between the 1984 idol campaign and the late 1985 rock era. > By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance. -- Diego Stewart "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1