Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Randall does have one exquisite moment to suggest what could have been. Reeling with a hangover, he sits at a table to take an aspirin. His fluttering hands drop it to the floor with an audible click, but he doesn't notice. He just fingers empty air into his mouth, sips water and swallows with a perfectly timed toss of his head and palpitation in his throat. Alas, one swallow does not a bummer unmake...
...programming and all manner of video publications, catalogs, data files and interactive entertainment. Remote facilities, located in Burbank, California, or Hollywood or Atlanta or anywhere, will hold additional offerings from HBO and Showtime, as well as archived hits from the past: I Love Lucy, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch. Click an item on the menu, and it will appear instantly on the screen...
...interactive TV, the lines between advertisements, entertainment and services may grow fuzzy. A slick demonstration put together by programmers at Microsoft shows how that might be so. The presentation opens with a Seattle Mariners baseball game. By clicking a button on a mouse or remote control, a viewer can bring up a menu of options (displayed as buttons on the screen). Click on one, and the image of the batter at the plate shrinks to make room for the score and the player's stats - RBIs, home runs and batting average - updated with every pitch. Click again...
...work, the jobs have to be real and the students have to feel they're real and there has to be enough training and enough of a good match between what the students are interested in doing and what the job is," Rudenstine said. "Otherwise it just won't click. If the jobs aren't real, the people will feel bored...
...staged a grueling series of hearings on public education in all 75 Arkansas counties. She spent long evenings drinking stale coffee in overheated cafeterias while participants trooped to the microphone to offer their views and occasional insults (she was once called "lower than a snake's belly"). Known to click a ball-point pen if someone was belaboring the obvious, she sometimes resorted to setting a timer at five minutes to keep the meetings moving. As the deadline approached, Mrs. Clinton drove the meetings from 6 p.m. Friday until late Sunday afternoon. When she presented the findings to a special...