Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pretty bleak stuff. "The Human Foul" crack was a cry for help, a plea for attention that went unheeded. As time passed, my glasses turned to jade...
...machines that could churn out 130 floppy disks an hour. Another bedroom contained fat stacks of glittering hologram stickers -- laser-produced, three-dimensional images that are supposed to guarantee the authenticity of store-bought software. The third bedroom held boxes of stolen computer chips, worth more per ounce than crack cocaine. And in the living room piles of fake Microsoft user's guides spilled from open cartons...
...other problem with Braveheart is its unhappy ending. After all that time, you want and expect evil to be confounded. What you get instead is the hero being tortured to death. The suspense is this: Will he crack, cry out in pain, thus robbing posterity of an inspiring example of masochism-sorry, heroism? Come on. That's Mel Gibson the wild horses are trying to pull apart. Of course he's going to die stoically. Everybody knows that a non-blubbering clause is standard in all movie stars' contracts. Too bad there isn't one banning self-indulgence when they...
Race. The issue at the center of it all, of course, was slavery, the terrible crack in the American design...
...well as some of their Republican critics, for appearing to use the Oklahoma tragedy to score points off the right wing. The next day the President backpedaled, saying he had attacked extremism "from the left or the right." He also said he would ask Congress for $1.5 billion to crack down on terrorism, outlining a plan that would include hiring 1,000 additional law enforcers, require explosive materials to be chemically "tagged" to make them easier to track down and make it easier for the FBI to trace and eavesdrop on phone calls...