Word: circuiter
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...silly, but you'd be surprised how many people spill coffee or beer on their keyboards. The keyboard can look speciously abuse-resistant, but in reality the electrical contacts of the keys are exposed to the outside world. Any liquid that finds its way into the keyboard may short-circuit these contacts and literally fry the whole device...
...spending long hours alone in a basement apartment near Manhattan's Third Avenue El while his mother, the rawboned, boilermaker-swigging Emma, drives a cab. Fortunately for Claude, the cramped living quarters contains an old 66- key nightclub piano, a memento from Emma's past life on the vaudeville circuit. The boy begins plinking away and eventually seeks advice from Aaron Weisfeld, the owner of a nearby music-supply store...
...words are traditional; their relationship is not. Sharon was declared "an unfit parent" last week by Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Buford Parsons Jr. His one reason: she is a lesbian...
...county circuit judge in Virginia ruled last week that a woman's lesbianism made her an unsuitable parent. Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her mother Kay Bottoms. Kay complained that the boy called Sharon's lover "Dada...
...closest male friends are mostly comedians he met on the club circuit in Los Angeles. Even they concede that Letterman reveals little about himself. George Miller, who lived in the same apartment building as Letterman, across the street from the Comedy Store, recalls taking him along on his first three or four guest appearances on the Tonight Show. When Letterman was invited for his first Tonight gig, however, "I found out about it from Merrill," says Miller. "I was a little ticked off. But it's just because he's so private...