Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...color to create a sense of light and space. "We want the audience to respond to our film the way we respond to fine art, not to a comic book," says art director Kathy Altieri. None of this comes cheap: the film costs about $65 million if you ask DreamWorks, and almost twice that if you ask the competition...
...Esther, pictured arm-in-arm with Luke on that early album cover? Does the self-pitying, rather irritating Billy really exist? Don't know, don't care, though if Esther and Billy are pure invention, what is the point of the Dylan caricature? These are questions that readers will ask, and try to answer. But they get in the way of the novel, which, of course, has done a thorough job of getting...
...digital realm, the Next Big Advance will be voice recognition. The rudiments are already here but in primitive form. Ask a computer to "recognize speech," and it is likely to think you want it to "wreck a nice beach." But in a decade or so we'll be able to chat away and machines will soak it all in. Microchips will be truly embedded in our lives when we can talk to them. Not only to our computers; we'll also be able to chat with our automobile navigation systems, telephone consoles, browsers, thermostats, VCRs, microwaves and any other devices...
Biggest blunder: Vietnam War Historians' comments: "America would have found a way to give blacks the vote without him, but don't ask me how"; "Greatest domestic legislator in history...
...tide. She argued on principle that everyone who wanted to work had a right to be productive, and she railed against the closing of the child-care centers as a shortsighted response to a fundamental social need. What the women workers needed, she said, was the courage to ask for their rights with a loud voice...