Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting 19 penalty points, gets 1 added for taking $15,000 and 9 more for shooting someone and causing serious injury. If the robber served a 14-month prison term five years earlier, the total of 29 points would direct the judge to set a new sentence -- whir, click -- between 97 and 121 months...
...failures--must rest on the shoulders of producer Ian "Mack" McKenzie, who committed that live sound to vinyl. For most of the songs, the production is too antiseptic, too well-scrubbed for the type of rough, crude music the Huxtons play. Occasionally, though, McKenzie and the Huxtons click, as on the wall-of-noise landscape behind the Huxton's theme song "I've Been Around...
...these bopping, jerking, lip-syncing neighbors of you and me are cultural, not medical, victims. They create and live in their own walkman-world, in which cars and people seem to bounce to the same beat that's pulsating through their earphones. Or they click the radio right--snap--at the end of a good song, letting the rhythm and sync linger in their minds for the rest of the day. They're trying to create personal soundtracks to shape and pace their lives. But they need help...
Names can also be changed within dialogue boxes. Any user of the Happy Hacker's souped-up version of Word who happens to click on print will then have to pick from a slightly non-standard set of print quality options--"Snail-paced," "Marginal" and "Ugly" instead of the off-the-shelf "Best," "`Faster" and "Draft...
...Happy Hacker frequently likes to use a bold type style when writing papers in Word. Before ResEditing his Word disk, however, switching to bold took several keystrokes (not to mention a lunge for the mouse); the menu had to be chosen and then the Hacker had to click on bold. ResEdit has allowed the Hacker to define the command-1 key (i.e. pressing the little squiggly key simultaneously with the 1 key) as performing the same function as selecting Bold on the Character menu; no more grasping for that non-teflon paded mouse...