Word: coined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard fans once again hope to see the Crimson repeat as national champions and share in the elation of being the best team in the country. But there are two sides to every coin. Minnesota faithful have not forgotten what transpired and are looking forward to this season with as much anticipation as the Crimson...
This is the Social Security crowd, whose imperturbable coin stuffing accounted in large part for 55% of Atlantic City's gaming win last year. From the street corners of New York City to the hamlets of Pennsylvania, these gamblers in thick-soled white sneakers begin their pilgrimages at dawn, first making their way to deserted parking lots or pick-up points, then wobbling up the bus steps, down the aisle and into a seat. For Josephine Baumann, 71, a retired cook with the face of Edith Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday...
That kind of double-talk is, unfortunately, the common coin of the Middle East dialogue. As principal exponents of the opposing sides, Shamir and Arafat have more than occasionally been guilty of talking out of both sides of their mouth. Each has proved a master at sounding comparatively moderate to international listeners, but appealing to ancient strains of chauvinism when addressing their constituents. A recent sampler...
Hold on to your joysticks, everyone. Video-game nostalgia has arrived. Never mind that the genre is less than two decades old. The first coin- operated video game -- a rather drab, black-and-white job called Computer Space -- was introduced in 1971, to a notably tepid reception. Since then, arcades have seen a parade of breakthrough hits, technological advances, a boom period and then a falloff in popularity. Enough has happened, in short, for the American Museum of the Moving Image to assemble a collection of nearly 50 classic video games and call it historical scholarship. The exhibit, Hot Circuits...
...only video game that was more popular than the movie that inspired it. Special attention is paid to technological innovations like the 3-D graphics introduced by Subroc 3-D in 1982 and the computerized voice in Berzerk, which lured passersby when the game was idle by calling out, "Coin detected in pocket...