Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of the ten-speeds that were bought in the cycling boom in the '70s are hanging in garages," says Fred Zahradnik, technical editor of Bicycling magazine. But with new index shifting systems from companies like Shimano of Irvine, Calif., he explains, "you just push the button, hear it click, and you're in gear." Shimano's system uses special teeth and ramps to move the chain smoothly between gears...
...Lertola, a native of Morristown, N.J., who graduated from Pratt Institute's School of Art and Design in Brooklyn in 1978, has traded in his old technical pens for the zip and click of an electronic mouse and a computer screen. To create or alter an illustration or to add color, he simply taps commands into the keyboards of his sophisticated Macintosh and IBM machines. Says Lertola, a science-fiction buff: "With so many computers, I sometimes feel as if I'm operating a spaceship...
...Click, Click, Click...
...Only the click, click of the oarlocks, the seat sliding back and forth and the banter of the coxswain remains for the rowers to coach themselves...
With the disappointing season almost halfway completed, the team has still been able to maintain a positive attitude. And pretty soon, Coach Barry Haskell's squad's game may begin to click. But first, the Crimson's inexperienced players must stop beating themselves...