Word: appearently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Crimson's road trip to California last week, Micomonaco was chosen to appear on the television game show "The Price is Right" in an episode set to air May 5. On the show, Micomonaco won a ride-on lawnmower, a refrigerator, a hand-painted armoire/cupboard, and a bar-prizes totaling over...
...design of their face-recognizing computer on the one thing all computers do well: acquiring, storing and analyzing masses of information at lightning speed. In the 1970s, psychologist Paul Ekman and his colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a classification of 46 muscle movements that appear to account for the entire panoply of human facial expressions. The movements--or action units, as Ekman called them--range from the slight crow's-feet crinkling around the eyes that accompanies a smile to the contraction of forehead muscles that are an integral part of a scowl. "Some of these...
...read your article, however, my disdain was tempered by an unexpected admiration. She has lived out a fear most of us only dream about--suddenly finding oneself naked in public. What struck me was how Monica was able to defend herself without seeming defensive. This ability allowed her to appear poised, intelligent and charming--so much so that many people commented they could finally understand what the President saw in her. While I do not admire Monica for her self-centered, narrow view of the world, I do respect her courage to stand her own ground. SARA E. MELZER...
DIED. DAVID STRICKLAND, 29, film and TV actor who played a music critic on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan and has a role in the current release Forces of Nature; of an apparent suicide; in Las Vegas. Strickland, who was due to appear in court last week as part of his probation for an October cocaine-possession arrest, was found hanged in a motel room...
...finest old manuscripts are no longer the exclusive domain of scholars and wealthy collectors. Now, thanks to Octavo Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., anyone with a computer and CD-ROM drive can enjoy priceless works by Galileo, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other greats exactly as they appear in the originals--complete with watermarks, worn pages and wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems...