Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time was when the dread moment of learning how popular you were came only with the delivery of birthday or Valentine's Day cards. Now every day is judgment day, thanks to instant messaging and the in-your-face presence of its address book (the "buddy list") on computer desktops. The software offers real-time chat with friends, family or co-workers who are online, as most now seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers...
...Americans as caricature, all pinky rings and suntans, all echoes of Ari and his pals. But as individuals, they somehow remain indistinct, without celebrity, and so a royally scrutinized clan like the Kennedys can visit, take the sweet sea airs, and have opulence and privacy at the same address. If it is not always good to be a Kennedy, the solace can be spectacular...
...escape seeming a pale version of the original, like Frank Sinatra Jr. Joe Kennedy, who came to Congress worried that he could never match the luster of his famous elders, once told friends, "Every time I speak, a lot of people expect to hear President Kennedy's Inaugural Address...
Time and value, in fact, have little to do with each other; the good die young, old and in between. It took Lincoln considerably less time to write the Gettysburg Address than it did for the Chinese to build their Great Wall, but given the choice, I for one would take the speech. Kennedy accomplished a number of quite valuable things in his life--specifically in programs for the disabled that helped the helpers of the disabled extend their education. The ripple effect of that sort of public service widens forever...
...there" for a Latino program since. Even the networks' critics largely blame not blind Klansmanship but the belief that white viewers are key to the ratings and ad bucks that big broadcasters seek. "They think about the market," says Screen Actors Guild president Richard Masur, "and you have to address them in those terms." But a scarcity of minority executives and the pigeonholing of minority writers don't help. "Programmers and executives know Latinos only as people they see in their kitchens and gardens," remarks Latina TV writer Julie Friedgen...