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  • Whether he can do the one thing in the world he's good at and not be drawn back into the addiction that is rife within the jazz community, we cannot know.†   (source)
  • A route that took him smack dab through the middle of a cemetery as old as sky, rife with the agitation of dead Miami no longer content to rest in the mounds that covered them.†   (source)
  • The only one he recognizes immediately is an American: L. Bob Rife, the cabletelevision monopolist.†   (source)
  • The air was rife with anticipation.†   (source)
  • They were rife for two days, struck despair into our hearts, and then died down again.†   (source)
  • The speculation has been rife, fingers pointed at the police, at Kamal Abdic, at Scott.†   (source)
  • If Dolores had been a little less aloof, a little more earthy, she could have discovered that those ingredients were rife in her town proper, and Dad had no need to travel to Mexico to buy provisions.†   (source)
  • But it would have been almost impossible not to be infected by the optimism about the future, which was rife among ordinary people in Hamburg.†   (source)
  • This was because the kitchen was rife with smuggling.†   (source)
  • Freed of fear and freed of flame, She tore a Rider from the shadows rife!†   (source)
  • He's talking to Phoebe Rifer and they're laughing about something.†   (source)
  • Aside from the crooked matches, they said, sumo was rife with drug use and sexcapades, bribes and tax evasion, and close ties to the yakuza, the Japanese mafia.†   (source)
  • The air was rife with the fragrant aromas of tree peonies and irises.†   (source)
  • Novgorod was rife with corruption, everyone suspected that, so perhaps the "commandant" was either seeking out the corrupters or collecting his fees at night.†   (source)
  • The city's political structure is said to be rife with corruption, favor-peddling and nepotism.†   (source)
  • The talk was open, spirited—an atmosphere made to order for Adams—and rife with high-blown speculation, most of which struck him as amusing, as he told Franklin in a friendly letter written soon after his arrival.†   (source)
  • Autumn is a season rife with storms, and pirates still make their dens upon the Stepstones and venture forth to prey on honest men.†   (source)
  • Language uneasiness is rife today, as generations of Americans leave high school much freer socially but without the linguistic confidence of earlier generations, who were better grounded in basic grammar.†   (source)
  • This, of course, was no manor, but I suppose a house rife with any human activity has something over one unsettlingly spacious and silent.†   (source)
  • Houses surrendered their tenants to the city and signs of sudden departure were rife in the interiors of deserted homes.†   (source)
  • With rumors of violence and military dictatorship rife, Congress determined upon arbitration by a supposedly nonpartisan Electoral Commission—and Lucius Lamar, confident that an objective inquiry would demonstrate the palpable fraud of the Republican case, agreed to this solution to prevent a recurrence of the tragic conflict which had so aged his spirit and broadened his outlook.†   (source)
  • As he came closer, he inhaled a rife and stimulating man smell.†   (source)
  • "He thought," Hiro says, "that L. Bob Rife might have a use for some viruses."†   (source)
  • It is Rife's chopper, settling down on the tarmac a few dozen meters away from the jet.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife has taken xenoglossia and perfected it, turned it into a science.†   (source)
  • That makes us a big stumbling block to Rife's plan.†   (source)
  • And lots of videotapes of L. Bob Rife-which accounts for most of the bytes.†   (source)
  • Raven and Rife are talking, Raven gesticulating back in Enzo's direction.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me that Rife owns the Reverend Wayne?†   (source)
  • Rife turns around and starts walking back to the chopper.†   (source)
  • Except that Rife was smart-he caught it in a controlled manner.†   (source)
  • And five at Rife Bible College in Houston, Texas.†   (source)
  • Something tells L. Bob Rife to get away from the jet, which is loaded with fuel.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife is a fullback, number eight in the dark uniform.†   (source)
  • Rife owns the biggest radio astronomy network in the world.†   (source)
  • No one has studied it, except maybe for L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Rife's walking among the people, handing out Bible comics and kisses to little kids.†   (source)
  • Rife changes his mind and runs up the stairway, taking the steps three at a time.†   (source)
  • Rife has a million people there with rifles and missile launchers.†   (source)
  • Finally the journalist gives up on being a journalist, just starts to slag L. Bob Rife openly.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife is obviously interested in this stuff.†   (source)
  • People like L. Bob Rife can't do anything without us hackers.†   (source)
  • Rife Bible College, which he founded, has the richest archaeology department in the world.†   (source)
  • The Raft is L. Bob Rife's watery fortress.†   (source)
  • That's what Rife was claiming in that piece of videotape, on top of the Enterprise.†   (source)
  • The clay envelope is in the personal collection of L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • "So Rife can control two kinds of people," Ng says.†   (source)
  • Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian.†   (source)
  • And then came television, and the Reverend Wayne, backed up by thevast media power of L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Rife's jet sits on the tarmac, engines idling, waiting to taxi out onto the runway.†   (source)
  • How do you know they are maintenance workers and not Rife soldiers in costume?†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife's glossolalia cult is the most successful religion since the creation of Islam.†   (source)
  • shub of Enki," Ng says, "which is dangerous to Rife's plan."†   (source)
  • Rife has patched into it, heavily, with his own, higher-tech systems.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife has let his publicist know that he wants to show a more human side.†   (source)
  • "This is the miracle of tongues," Rife shouts above the tumult.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife, Lord of Bandwidth, is sitting behind his desk, having his mustache waxed.†   (source)
  • "Torque this baby," Rife says to the pilot.†   (source)
  • And after that, Lagos had no idea what Rife did with it.†   (source)
  • Rife bows back, very awkwardly, but there's no gaiety on his face.†   (source)
  • Until half an hour ago, they were loyal employees of L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • When they came out here, he was expecting a broad open space in which to confront Rife.†   (source)
  • Then Rife slams her into the chopper face first.†   (source)
  • Rife was on the verge of delivering a sermon, Hiro senses, but they cut him off.†   (source)
  • per hovers and watches; Rife looks up to it and motions forward with one hand, shouting, "Co to LAX!†   (source)
  • Rife's black cube is there, just as Y.T. described it.†   (source)
  • Rife's going to infect all of them at once.†   (source)
  • They will act out L. Bob Rife's instructions as though they have been programmed to.†   (source)
  • Then Rife nods his approval, and Raven turns around, his teeth bright and white.†   (source)
  • Rife has climbed down out of the chopper.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Rife will be most unhappy," Ng predicts.†   (source)
  • It is thought that L. Bob Rife has excavated many intact tablets, but he refuses to release them.†   (source)
  • Rife gets suspicious, and the chopper gains altitude, lifting the Kouriers off their planks.†   (source)
  • But there's an antidote to Rife's bogus religion.†   (source)
  • And the fact that Rife was digging up this old city-"†   (source)
  • And Rife has got something else going for him: Eridu.†   (source)
  • See, Rife has a million programmers working for him.†   (source)
  • "Get me LAX on the phone, then," Rife says.†   (source)
  • Rife was on the second-string Texas all-state team in his senior year.†   (source)
  • And L. Bob Rife is sitting in the middle of it.†   (source)
  • I think that was Rife's plan, and I think it worked.†   (source)
  • Rife chuckles, pleased and relieved that Y.T. is now insulting someone else.†   (source)
  • took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done," L. Bob Rife says.†   (source)
  • We don't know, sir, we only had one spotter in the area, and he was tracking Rife.†   (source)
  • Just going on pure, irrational bias, I'm guessing L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Rife just gives him a look like, right, an hole.†   (source)
  • Well, a few years ago, Lagos approached L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • She's no good to Rife unless he's got her, and she's in one piece.†   (source)
  • Rife has figured it out a long time ago.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife lifts her right off the fence, both arms and both legs kicking the air uselessly.†   (source)
  • A hairy animal smell, ripe, rife, suffocating.†   (source)
  • The literature of Everest is rife with accounts of hallucinatory experiences attributable to hypoxia and fatigue.†   (source)
  • The glimpses Gholam had allowed Adel into his life suggested an existence rife with trouble, unpredictability, hardship, but also adventure, a life worlds removed from Adel's own, though it unfolded practically within spitting distance of him.†   (source)
  • …constructed, their paneless windows now staring sightlessly into the gaping mouths of their neighbors. lndigenies breeding like… like humans, I suppose… eyeless cripples, lungs burned out with air rot, squiring a nest of a dozen offspring, the children's skin scabrous by age five-standard, their eyes watering incessantly from the sting of an atmosphere which will kill them before they're forty, their smiles carious, their oily hair rife with lice and the blood bags of dracula ticks.†   (source)
  • "Had the interior redone," Rife says.†   (source)
  • It would jam their mother-tongue neurons and prevent Rife from programming them with new me," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • The soundtrack now consists of a thousand people speaking in tongues under the high-pitched, shiteating chuckles of L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • The problem is, as usual, the unpredictable Y.T. He was not expecting her to jump out of a moving helicopter and get free from L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife says this while standing on a huge open-air platform elevator along with the interviewer and the whole camera crew.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife proceeds to admire the vast, flat open spaces of the carrier's flight deck, likening it to certain parts of Texas.†   (source)
  • He might as well take the headset with him-it must have something to do with the way L. Bob Rife controls the Raft.†   (source)
  • There's a chopper parked next to it with a logo she's seen before: Rife Advanced Research Enterprises.†   (source)
  • After two years in this line of work, Rife went into business with his great-uncle, a financier with roots in the oil business.†   (source)
  • His weary attitude suggests that this is not the first time Rife has flown off on a bizarre tangent "Partly.†   (source)
  • Apparently, when they set down to pick up Rife, a man got out of the chopper and climbed into the pizza car and drove it away.†   (source)
  • If Rife should, somehow, actually make it onto the plane, he will recognize his own pilots and think that everything is fine.†   (source)
  • ogy that would enable Rife to maintain possession of information that had passed into the brains of his programmers.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife, last of the nineteenth-century monopolists, is shown consulting with his decorator in the captain's quarters.†   (source)
  • The second chopper set down in a strip-mall parking lot about ten miles from here and met the pizza car and picked up Rife, then took off again.†   (source)
  • A naked PR plant, a half-hour television commercial with no purpose whatsoever other than to let L. Bob Rife tell his side of a particular issue.†   (source)
  • The answer comes back a few minutes later, as she's riding out of the office park, pooned onto a nice Mercedes: Rife Advanced Research Enterprises.†   (source)
  • There is a personality journalism program that does a puff piece on Rife after he buys a new yacht, surplus, from the U.S. Government.†   (source)
  • "Y.T.," says the always polite L. Bob Rife, "meet Frank Frost, my tech director, and Tony Michaels, my security chief."†   (source)
  • But I think that the government has been undertaking a big software development project for L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • The jet explodes about ten feet off the ground, catching Fido and L. Bob Rife and his virus all together in its fine, sterilizing flame.†   (source)
  • His computer has succeeded in jackLng into L. Bob Rife's global networlq he has access to the Street.†   (source)
  • All existing video on L. Bob Rife was collected by Dr. Lagos and placed in the Babel/Infocalypse stack, which you have in your system.†   (source)
  • Rife talks to his en through a central transmitter on the Enterprise, which I take to be a fairly short-range, line-of-sight type of thing.†   (source)
  • It looks nice as it is, considering that Rife bought this ship from the Navy, but it's not Texan enough for him.†   (source)
  • It is so vast and complicated in its blooming, uncontrolled growth that Rife stops halfway up the stairs to watch.†   (source)
  • The chopper just sits there, idling, while L. Bob Rife jumps out and runs over to the pay phone bolted to the front wall.†   (source)
  • Rife must have a whole suite of satellite uplinks there on the Enterprise, patched into a cellular network covering the Raft.†   (source)
  • Lagos grouped them into four broad categories: Biblical studies, Sumerian studies, neurolinguistic studies, and intel gathered on L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Look up every piece of free information in the Library that contains L. Bob Rife and arrange it in chronological order.†   (source)
  • From Hiro's front yard to L. Bob Rife's black cube at Port 127 is halfway around the Metaverse, a distance of 32,768 kilometers.†   (source)
  • She asked him again jater, as they were wandering around looking for their room, and he told her: These guys all work for L. Bob Rife.†   (source)
  • Then we begin to see more stories, mostly from the Religion sections of Houston newspapers, detailing Rife's contributions to various organizations.†   (source)
  • The bad publicity from this so annoyed Rife that he felt the need to blow a few million on some more PR.†   (source)
  • The Metaverse in its entirety could be considered a single vast nam-shub, enacting itself on L. Bob Rife's fiberoptic network.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rife, what's your opinion of the people who say you're just doing this as a self-aggrandizing publicity stunt?†   (source)
  • It is so small and so fast that L. Bob Rife would not be able to see it, if it were not headed directly for him.†   (source)
  • All of this is fitting together now: the Feds and L. Bob Rife and the Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates and the Raft are all part of the same deal.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to reach the Metaverse from his very own watery fortress, which would never do for a man like Rife.†   (source)
  • He was, in other words, expecting a hostage negotiation somewhat later on, after Rife had flown Y.T. back to his headquarters in Houston.†   (source)
  • If one person in a hundred has a receiver, he can act as the local en and distribute the me of L. Bob Rife to all the others.†   (source)
  • It may have been an experiment, just to see if Snow Crash worked on a real hacker, and it may have been a warning shot intended to demonstrate Rife's power to the hacker community.†   (source)
  • Just as a wild guess, Hiro figures that this may represent Rife's fiber-optics network, with its innumerable local offices and nodes spread all over the world.†   (source)
  • Rife's got a mobile uplink on his corporate chopper, just like the one on commercial airliners, so he can patch into the Mets-verse when he's in the air.†   (source)
  • And if they hit a planet with another civilized culture, where people are listening to the stars the way Rife was doing, then that planet gets infected, too.†   (source)
  • Rife majored in communications.†   (source)
  • The shapes probably represent computers, or central nodes in Rife's worldwide network, or Pearly Gates franchises, or any other kind of local and regional offices that Rife has going around the world.†   (source)
  • But the hostage situation no longer obtains, and so Uncle Enzo feels it is important to stop Rife now, before he gets back to his home turf in Houston.†   (source)
  • Rife delivers this line with an incredibly sardonic and contemptuous twang, the exaggerated accent of a cowboy who suspects that some Yankee pencilneck is looking down his nose at him.†   (source)
  • He might waste hours fooling around with some piece of code only to find out that it was the software to control the automatic toilet flushers at Rife Bible College.†   (source)
  • Rife's big Soviet chopper is right there, hovering about twenty feet above the avenue, and by the time she sees it, it has already accumulated a dozen more pOons.†   (source)
  • Looking into the Open door she can't hear Rife but she can see him, sitting there next to the pilot, motioning: Down, take it downt Which is what she figured.†   (source)
  • You're a dead man," Rife shouts.†   (source)
  • As she rotates, she sees the other chopper above her and off to the side, glimpses the faces watching her, knows that all of this is being relayed, over the radio, to Rife.†   (source)
  • By clambering over this structure and going into those bright shapes, Hiro could A probably uncover some of the code that makes Rife's network operate.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife's private church.†   (source)
  • Which explains why this guy continues to pump out a steady stream of Raft babble even when his brain is missing: It looks like L. Bob Rife has figured out a way to make electrical contact with the part of the brain where Asherah lives.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife has taken a personal interest in the subject; as various national governments auction off their possessions, he has purchased a string of radio observatories and hooked them together, using his fabled fiber-optic net, to turn them into a single giant antenna as big as the whole earth.†   (source)
  • Then, shots of Rife maneuvering his steerlike body through the narrow passages and steep staircase of the ship's interior——typical boring gray steel Navy scape, which, he assures the interviewer, he is going to have spruced up considerably.†   (source)
  • What do you think Rife wants?†   (source)
  • Once he figured out all of this Enki/Asherah stuff, he went looking for someone who would pay for it and settled on L. Bob Rife, Lord of Bandwidth, owner of the fiberoptics monopoly, who at that time employed more programmers than anyone else on earth.†   (source)
  • Then they sat and watched out the windshield as the dozen Rife security drones who were stationed around the hangar variously got their heads blown off, their throats slit, or else just plain dropped their weapons and fell to their knees and surrendered.†   (source)
  • Rife's here?" she asked him.†   (source)
  • During the same years that Rife makes his contributions to the Reverend Wayne, he's showing up with increasing frequency in the business section, first in the local papers and later in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.†   (source)
  • He can't see anything but the broken tablet, twenty feet away on the flight deck— The sound and wind of Rife's chopper diminish into a distant puttering noise that takes a long time to go away completely.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife wanted to reverse-engineer the skills that Enki possessed; by analyzing Enki's me, he wanted to create his very own neurolinguistic hackers, who could write new me that would become the ground rules, the program, for the new society that Rife wants to create.†   (source)
  • It is swarming with Bangladeshis that L. Bob Rife plucked out of the Bay of Bengal after their country washed into the ocean in a series of massive floods, caused by ieforestation farther upstream in India-hydrological warfare.†   (source)
  • Rife contributed $500 to the Highlands Church of the Baptism by Fire, Reverend Wayne Bedford, head minister; $2,500 to the Pentecostal Youth League of Bayside, Reverend Wayne Bedford, president; $150,000 to the Pentecostal Church of the New Trinity, Reverend Wayne Bedford, founder and patriarch; $2.3 million to Rife Bible College, Reverend Wayne Bedford, President and chairman of the theology department; $20 million to the archaeology department of Rife Bible College, plus $45 million to the astronomy department and $100 million to the computer science department.†   (source)
  • The chopper makes one last orbit over the scene, watching as Sasha puts the ruined gunship into cold shutdown, watching furious Kouners overwhelming and disarming Tony and Frank and the President, watching as Rife stands in the middle of the left lane and forces a CosaNostra Pizza car to a stop, forces the driver out.†   (source)
  • Rife contributed $500 to the Highlands Church of the Baptism by Fire, Reverend Wayne Bedford, head minister; $2,500 to the Pentecostal Youth League of Bayside, Reverend Wayne Bedford, president; $150,000 to the Pentecostal Church of the New Trinity, Reverend Wayne Bedford, founder and patriarch; $2.3 million to Rife Bible College, Reverend Wayne Bedford, President and chairman of the theology department; $20 million to the archaeology department of Rife Bible College, plus $45 million to the astronomy department and $100 million to the computer science department.†   (source)
  • Rife says.†   (source)
  • Rife contributed $500 to the Highlands Church of the Baptism by Fire, Reverend Wayne Bedford, head minister; $2,500 to the Pentecostal Youth League of Bayside, Reverend Wayne Bedford, president; $150,000 to the Pentecostal Church of the New Trinity, Reverend Wayne Bedford, founder and patriarch; $2.†   (source)
  • Rife hollers.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife is squalling.†   (source)
  • Rife likes to think big.†   (source)
  • Rife's an important man.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife's?†   (source)
  • Rife says.†   (source)
  • "Shut up," Rife says.†   (source)
  • As Rife is speaking the last part of the line, suddenly the elevator rises up to the top and the camera turns around, and we are looking out across the deck of the aircraft carrier Enterprise, formerly of the U.S. Navy, now the personal yacht of L. Bob Rife, who beat out both General Jim's Defense System and Admiral Bob's Global Security in a furious bidding war.†   (source)
  • It seems that a number of Rife's programmers, the people who made his systems run, got together and formed a union-unheard of, for hackers-and filed a suit against Rife, claiming that he had placed audio and video bugs in their homes, in fact placed all of them under twenty-four-hour surveillance, and harassed and threatened some programmers who were making what he called "unacceptable lifestyle choices.†   (source)
  • Rife is the Antichrist.†   (source)
  • — "By Rife's people?†   (source)
  • Rife's revenge.†   (source)
  • Rife stole Lagos's idea.†   (source)
  • L. Bob Rife laughs.†   (source)
  • I accept the logic of everything you say, but you also said everything was rife with illogical logic.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine the temptation for a man like Cain, operating in the steamy confines of an area rife with drifters and fugitives and regimes up to their necks in corruption?†   (source)
  • When you drive through town you notice how the trees hang a bit too closely over the streets, how the bushes and grasses are keenly in need of pruning and edging and clipping, how the main thoroughfare is rife with chain businesses and towering signs that glow and rotate and blink.†   (source)
  • He's standing in the corner talking to Phoebe Rifer, and instantly my mind goes fuzzy, a big useless snowstorm.†   (source)
  • I see Kent standing in the corner talking to Phoebe Rifer and I think, I could walk up and kiss the heart-shaped mole under his eye, and it wouldn't make a difference.†   (source)
  • I'm feeling more annoyed than I should by everything: by the fact that my friends ditched me after thirty whole seconds, by the fact that Rob's so drunk, by the fact that Kent's still talking to Phoebe Rifer, even though he's supposed to be obsessively in love with me.†   (source)
  • In a single year he transformed a plodding school rife with racial tension to the finest school in the state.†   (source)
  • (He quotes) "Dear college days, with pleasure rife!†   (source)
  • Now in the starlight they retraced the afternoon's path, up the dusty road rife with honeysuckle, through the gate and up the black tunnel of the drive to the lightless house, where he sat on the mule and felt the rough warp of the rug drag across his thighs and vanish.†   (source)
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