Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budget for this year's Springfest is "a little bit less than last year because of financial constraints," Rucker said...
Contacted by Maloney, the FBI sent a sketch artist to render a portrait of Jacques. The drawing shows a muscular young man with a short haircut, full face and dark features. Maloney thinks he was "maybe Indian." Davidson agrees, adding, "maybe a little bit Hawaiian." The FBI has been looking for him for well over a year...
...recipe brownies in his kitchen, "I'm afraid to give up my Mac." Don't be, he says. While Macs were once prized for their ease of use, all computers are becoming equally complex. If I were buying my first computer today, he says, a PC would be every bit as easy (or hard) to master as a Mac. In fact, he insists, "there are a bunch of things on the PC that are absolutely superior." With the zealotry of a recent convert, he ticks off the holy trinity of Windows features (the task bar, the start menu...
...Copeland, whose peach-colored Straya restaurant, complete with palm trees and enough neon to guide air traffic, brings a splash of Las Vegas and Miami Beach to a decaying stretch of New Orleans' elegant St. Charles Avenue, bit back 48 hours later with a two-page ad of his own. Copeland, who favors ostrich-skin cowboy boots and is known across Louisiana as a powerboat racer and founder of Popeyes spicy-fried-chicken chain, began his volley with "Dear Anne" and ended with "P.S.: See you in court. In the meantime, I'm putting a little extra garlic...
...never do is disguise fiction as their lives." This is not quite true. Paul Theroux offered an invented autobiography last year in My Other Life, and Philip Roth did much the same in 1993 in Operation Shylock. The Term Paper Artist is as playful as those works and every bit as good...