Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computers seem to be reinforcing its dominance. The Internet is still overwhelmingly text-based, promoting literacy in general, and yet the screen has not replaced the page. Says Barnes & Noble vice president Lisa Herling: "I don't think anyone would ever take a computer to bed or to the beach to read...
Other remarkable Bell shows have involved such subjects as a 1957 Chevrolet that "just fell out of the sky" in Long Beach, California; a farmer who threw machinery and dead cows into a hole on his property and claimed that they "never hit bottom"; and an interview with Richard Hoagland, who claims the government is suppressing news of alien structures on the Moon and Mars...
...mail from my best boyhood pal, Stevie Scharfstein, recently. this in itself is not unusual; by now everyone I've ever known has E-mailed me, except a boy named Krepple I once met in Miami Beach in 1967. While the medium wasn't unusual, the message was. Scharfstein, a lawyer in Beaverton, Oregon, wanted the name of "a good Internet detective." My old friend is now learning his way around a curious new growth industry: Internet-sparked divorces...
...Offer more low-fat food. Summer is coming. We want to look good at the beach...
...take up my usual job as a restaurant waiter and--perhaps by now--assistant manager. When I talk about my internship search, all my friends at home say to me, "Why find an internship this summer when you can come work and hang out with us at the beach?" Then I begin to question my reasoning...