Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michelangelo Virus? There is a certainexcitement for many in this ability to create acharacter, to be an ideal self or someonecompletely different. If you want to be asix-foot platinum blonde transsexual dominatrixone day and a vertically challenged Cyclops fromNew Zealand the next, all it takes is the click ofthe keys. No one will ever know. By the sametoken, though, that conversation partner whodescribes himself as one hunk of an Olympic lugeracer may not be any more attractive than your oldtennis shoe...
...CLICK! POP! CHUNCK-UHN! Photography...It sounded so exciting. 'Reporter' also had a somewhat romantic ring to it--Woodward and Bernstein, Pentagon papers, Tom Wolfe, Americana. But 'photog' is even better. Like a reporter, you get a press pass complete with a photo, an official looking masthead, and the Crimson president's signature on it (even if the signature was forged by the managing editor, as mine is). You get to go to all the same newsworthy events and you don't even have to talk to anyone. Just chunck-ubn, chunck-ubn, chunck-ubn. When it's all over...
...operating system determines the way a computer is used, fromhow files are copied to how programs are run. In DOS you have to type in the name of the program you want to run, whereas in Windows you have to double click on the program icon. OS/2, like Windows, uses a graphical user interface (GUI); you can click and drag an icon to run a program...
...visit today by calling the magnificent 17th century Taj Mahal a "monument that reminds husbands to indulge in corruption so that they can build their Taj Mahal for their wives." At aphoto-opat the mausoleum yesterday, Zhirinovsky reclined in a marble niche, Roman style, and invited photographers to click away. He capped off the tour this morning by suggesting that India annex Pakistan and Bangladesh, then presenting a bottle of Russian vodka to a top Indian minister, who by law is forbidden to drink in public...
KEVIN MITNICK, 31, STOOD IN THE federal courtroom, his hands cuffed-unable, for the first time in more than two years, to feel the silky click of computer keys. He glanced over at Tsutomu Shimomura, the computer-security expert whose extraordinarily well-guarded personal computer Mitnick had allegedly broken into on Christmas Day. Shimomura, playing Pat Garrett to Mitnick's Billy the Kid, had taken his revenge by tracking the wily hacker across cyberspace-through the Internet, through local and long-distance phone companies and at least two cellular-phone carriers-until he finally traced him to his hideout...