Word: crystallic
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...Bill, wherever you are, I just wanted to tell you that -- after Steve Martin, and just ahead of Billy Crystal, and until Eddie Murphy and Bette Midler regain their strides -- you are screen comedy, pal. And I mean that, even if when Bill says, "I mean that," you're pretty sure he doesn't mean that. I do mean that. Really. I mean that...
...solution in water, and all the spider does is squirt it out through a small hole. In the process, proteins that were soluble turn into insoluble fibers. Now, isn't that amazing?" Just as amazing is Viney's discovery that spider silk in its soluble phase forms a liquid crystal rather like the displays on digital wristwatches...
...biggest electric power consumption in a notebook comes from the CPU, the hard disk, and the liquid crystal display, or ICD, screen, Most modern notebooks to run as long as possible on a single charge, have some sort of power management, with or without the help of a 386SI. A software driver determines which devices have bean idle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (NH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longer life than the more common and lest expensive nickel cadmider...
...expected to double this year. Even the Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down. Under new SEC rules, companies must provide, in their annual report to shareholders, some value for the stock options granted to executives. "Executives have been praying for this issue to cool down," says Graef ("Bud") Crystal, a leading compensation consultant. "But it's not, and they're going to stay on the hot seat...
...dilemma: how can one possibly depict the contents of a book like 120 Days of Sodom without the result being banned in every country on the globe? Xhonneux's solution is to hide his actors under elaborate animatronic masks not unlike those used in Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal." No human faces appear in the film. And though Miss Piggy wasn't above making a few amorous overtures to Kermit, she surely never dreamed of carrying on as the pigs, dogs and cows of "Marquis...