Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard first-years arrive in Cambridge ready to put their best foot forward, only to learn that it's more important to get that foot in the door by learning the new-speak on e-mail. From the moment they netconnect, students enter a downward spiral of sound bite style communication...
...where exactly does this terse, abbreviated e-mail language originate? Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is replete with TLAs (three letter acronyms) and reductive sound-bite talk and one may inevitably spot CS 50 students chuckling in the computer lab while Unix illiterates struggle with the fluorescent pink HASCS pocket dictionary. Technology is the wave of the future, they seem to say, either ride it, or get dunked...
That was The Difference, Dole repeated endlessly, warming to the shorthand, sound-bite-size formulation he hoped voters would internalize. And at the time Dole was close enough in the polls to believe the prize could...
...campaign machinery is designed to have reporters see--at only slightly closer range--just what the public sees. We duly observe the big, exultant crowds generated by expert advance teams, the Reagan-quality visual backdrops, the sound systems that never fail. Most of us dutifully report the torrent of bite-size initiatives his policy wonks are churning out, from free cell phones for neighborhood-watch groups to a Website for locating deadbeat dads. We come to both admire and resent his newfound discipline: be presidential, be centrist, be practical. The drama leaches away. Clinton commits few gaffes, raises millions...
...TRUMAN SOUND BITE] "Yes, we have all seen the polls and the pundits who say our party is dead. I have heard that before. So did Harry Truman...