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The only one he recognizes immediately is an American: L. Bob Rife, the cabletelevision monopolist.†
Chpt 7-8 *
And lots of videotapes of L. Bob Rife-which accounts for most of the bytes.†
Chpt 9-10
Look up every piece of free information in the Library that contains L. Bob Rife and arrange it in chronological order.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife is a fullback, number eight in the dark uniform.†
Chpt 13-14
Rife was on the second-string Texas all-state team in his senior year.†
Chpt 13-14
Rife majored in communications.†
Chpt 13-14
After two years in this line of work, Rife went into business with his great-uncle, a financier with roots in the oil business.†
Chpt 13-14
Then we begin to see more stories, mostly from the Religion sections of Houston newspapers, detailing Rife's contributions to various organizations.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
Are you telling me that Rife owns the Reverend Wayne?†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife has let his publicist know that he wants to show a more human side.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife, last of the nineteenth-century monopolists, is shown consulting with his decorator in the captain's quarters.†
Chpt 13-14
It looks nice as it is, considering that Rife bought this ship from the Navy, but it's not Texan enough for him.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife says this while standing on a huge open-air platform elevator along with the interviewer and the whole camera crew.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife proceeds to admire the vast, flat open spaces of the carrier's flight deck, likening it to certain parts of Texas.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife, Lord of Bandwidth, is sitting behind his desk, having his mustache waxed.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife laughs.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
For example, when one of his programmers and her husband engaged in oral sex in their own bedroom one night, the next morning she was called into Rife's office, where he called her a slut and a sodomite and told her to clean out her desk.†
Chpt 13-14
The bad publicity from this so annoyed Rife that he felt the need to blow a few million on some more PR.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
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.†
Chpt 13-14
Rife's walking among the people, handing out Bible comics and kisses to little kids.†
Chpt 13-14
Rife bows back, very awkwardly, but there's no gaiety on his face.†
Chpt 13-14
Mr. Rife, what's your opinion of the people who say you're just doing this as a self-aggrandizing publicity stunt?†
Chpt 13-14
took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done," L. Bob Rife says.†
Chpt 13-14
Rife was on the verge of delivering a sermon, Hiro senses, but they cut him off.†
Chpt 13-14
His weary attitude suggests that this is not the first time Rife has flown off on a bizarre tangent "Partly.†
Chpt 13-14
Finally the journalist gives up on being a journalist, just starts to slag L. Bob Rife openly.†
Chpt 13-14
Rife is pissed.†
Chpt 13-14
The soundtrack now consists of a thousand people speaking in tongues under the high-pitched, shiteating chuckles of L. Bob Rife.†
Chpt 13-14
"This is the miracle of tongues," Rife shouts above the tumult.†
Chpt 13-14
L. Bob Rife's private church.†
Chpt 25-26
That's what Rife was claiming in that piece of videotape, on top of the Enterprise.†
Chpt 27-28
And five at Rife Bible College in Houston, Texas.†
Chpt 27-28
The Metaverse in its entirety could be considered a single vast nam-shub, enacting itself on L. Bob Rife's fiberoptic network.†
Chpt 27-28
Just going on pure, irrational bias, I'm guessing L. Bob Rife.†
Chpt 27-28
Lagos grouped them into four broad categories: Biblical studies, Sumerian studies, neurolinguistic studies, and intel gathered on L. Bob Rife.†
Chpt 27-28
The clay envelope is in the personal collection of L. Bob Rife.†
Chpt 27-28

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(1) (rife)
excessively abundant -- especially something unpleasant
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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