Word: designer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite such inspiring beginnings, the parliament of nations at 50 has aged into such a rattletrap that its gruffest champions acknowledge design flaws. More than ever, the Secretariat appears to be a papermaking machine, the General Assembly an unwieldy debating society, and the mishmash of agencies spread around the globe a swamp into which good intentions can sink with barely a trace. Above all, the paramount U.N. duty of keeping the peace is in disgrace. All those recent ambitions of using the Security Council as the vehicle of a post-cold war new world order, with the Permanent Five members...
...celebrating the riddle of life," said Al L. Wunderlich, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design who re-created the DNA code using photo-sensitive pigments for the exhibit...
Although the overall concept and design are superb, Lucinda Hughey's choreography severely drags 'The Nightengale' down. Moments between Thrussell and Suarez let the piece lapse as the choreography merely bores the audience. No doubt, blame also belongs to Thrussell's performance, a real sleeper compared to Suarez's. Showing power or mystery as the Emperor, he has cold precision of a machine, a charm already claimed by the Mechanical Nightengale...
...same power is inherent in a different type of language. When millions of people in hundreds of countries all over the world turn on their computers--whether to play a video game, to write a speech or to design a car--they are greeted by an operating system that is standardized and which proscribes a very specific pattern of behavior and thinking...
...prevent any unwelcome invasions, Java's design emphasizes security. For instance, you cannot write an application in Java which will delete your hard drive or e-mail the contents of your hard drive to another person. Additionally, Java browsers come preconfigured to reject Java applications from untrusted computers...