Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl friend Sands fails despite his intensive coaching to get a role in a soap opera, he becomes the character actress Dorothy Michael and auditions for the job. In this Second role Hoffman is hysterical as he gradually adopts feminine mannerisms as well as dress. His heavy make up, button hair do, fitted dresses and suits and high pitched Southern accent make Michaels a plausible character. We see Dorsey's influence on the character as he lumbles about perfecting every little thing about Michales' actions, her speech patterns, and her personality. Just her delightful flippant hand motions are enough...
...thousands of prewritten programs are on the market, ranging from games to accountants' tools. Running these software packages, as opposed to writing them, is no more difficult than playing a record or a videotape. Just find the appropriate disc, put it in a disc drive and push a button. In a matter of seconds the computer is programmed and set to do the job at hand-from balancing the books to finding misspelled words to playing a video game...
...celebration winds up with a midnight fireworks display at Waterfront Park in Boston. All outdoor events are free, while admission to practically every indoor event comes with the onetime purchase of a three-dollar button...
DIED. Joseph Kipness, 71, bouncy, bustling Broadway producer and restaurateur (Joe's Pier 52), who with bottomless enthusiasm made and lost fortunes backing such hits as La Plume de Ma Tante and High Button Shoes (727 performances) and flops like Frankenstein (which lasted one night and cost more than $2 million); of cancer; in New York City...
...Columbia once again made history. Firing its small thrusters, it rolled and turned so that its big cargo bay faced in the direction of flight. Clamshell-shaped sun covers automatically opened, and the cylindrical parcel underneath them was set spinning (at precisely 52 r.p.m.). With the press of a button, Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, fired explosive bolts, releasing the spring-loaded clamps holding the parcel. Out it popped, like some extraterrestrial jack-in-the-box. Forty-five minutes later, after Columbia had pulled about 20 miles away and cautiously turned up its tile-covered belly to protect itself from...