Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week the fable will reach the big screen. Warner Bros. is releasing a major film of George Balanchine's classic 1954 production, performed entirely by New York City Ballet dancers; children from the company's crack training ground, the School of American Ballet; and starring none other than former student Macaulay Culkin, who settled for $10,000 (he recently made an $8 million deal with MGM) so that he could play the nutcracker prince...
Actually, a hacker of this kind is unlikely to deem it worth his time to break into your account by spending hours if not days in an attempt to "crack" your password. What such hackers love to do is to get the "super-user" privilege on a UNIX system such as the ones Harvard uses so that they can play God on the victimized system...
...turns out that the savants had a lot to learn about retrograde, reprobate rock 'n' roll. Bat II slipped through a crack in the pop zeitgeist to occupy the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart, above Nirvana and the other pricey rockers half Meat Loaf's age (46). Somebody in the U.S. must like this stuff, someone who remembers what rock once did -- and still could -- sound and feel like. Three, maybe four chords; an amoral homily twisted into a catchphrase; adolescent yearning and ecstasy so confused that they become harmony...
...look back to that era now, and we long for a -- I even made a crack the other day. I said, 'Gosh, I miss the cold war.' It was a joke, I mean, I don't really miss it, but you get the joke...
...heads screwed on straight. That was what the President's note to the Chinese was all about. When he wrote in September that we support a 'strong, stable' China, those were code words used by previous Administrations, and now by us, to say we know you sometimes have to crack heads and we can live with that. The fact is that nothing we can do short of war can significantly impact on what China does to its own people. Meanwhile, we want a piece of the pie, a big piece...