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...hacker stereotype is a pudgy male with a fish-belly-white complexion who swills soft drinks, lives on candy bars and spends most of his waking hours in front of a terminal, playing games or trying to penetrate Defense Department networks. (So far as is known, no one has succeeded in breaching a classified Pentagon system.) Dress ranges from the clean-cut, Ken-and-Barbie look to the torn jeans and tie-dyed couture of the Woodstock generation. Beards and glasses are popular hacker accessories...
...complexion of the race, regardless of the number of challengers, will be determined by White himself. though he has gone as far as to call himself a "participant." he has not yet declared and possibly will not do so until shortly before the mid-June filing date...
...Reaganomics is going to be in trouble." Frank Reynolds said repeatedly that "Democrats need only five victories to control the Senate," sounding as though he really anticipated that result. David Brinkley, playing the nightlong role of pinprick to his teammates' balloons, muttered his doubts that mild changes of complexion in Congress would much affect what measures were enacted...
...beginning of Sadat's visit to Washington, I thought he was a bit shy or ill at ease because he was sweating profusely. But he told me he had been unwell, with chills in Paris and a high fever since he had arrived in our country. Sadat's complexion was much darker than I had expected, and I noticed immediately a callused spot at the center of his forehead, apparently caused by a lifetime of touching his head to the ground in prayer. He didn't smoke very much, but he always wanted his pipe near by, and was irritated...
...afternoon, righteous speech making was interspersed with big-time pop-music making. The day's performers reflected the cultural complexion of the crowd: young and hip, like Rockers Lin da Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne; tweedy and middleaged, like Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary; politically insistent, like Balladeers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger...