Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overenthusiastic amateur, the other is a world-weary pro with a hard veneer of cynicism. They seem to bicker constantly, these mismatched TV couples, yet they share a grudging respect and affection--sometimes even a wedding ring. They can be found all over the prime-time dial these days, their names often linked by racy ampersands: Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, Kate & Allie, Cagney & Lacey, MacGruder & Loud...
...computer communications. The North-Pulaski branch of the Chicago Public Library, which claims to have installed in 1981 the world's first library computer available to patrons, also boasts what may be the first electronic library bulletin board. The system, which lets people with home computers and modems dial into the library's Apple II, has logged 16,000 calls in three years, including requests for everything from book reviews to tips on pet care. A library bulletin board in San Bernardino, Calif., lists theater performances and city council meetings, as well as the phone numbers and addresses of local...
...Typically the omnipresent telescreens project Big Brother's propaganda in black and white, never color, and their shape is that of antique sets. At the Ministry of Truth, no one has ever heard of the microchip. The height of sophisticated communication is represented by the pneumatic tube and the dial phone. And when O'Brien tortures Winston into submissiveness to the state, his instruments are the old-fashioned table with leather straps and electroshock. All of this matches perfectly the external world through which Winston and Julia stumble: it looks like a vast, bombed- out housing development. Cameron thus carefully...
Afternoon television no longer is the only place to watch "Get Smart" reruns, just turn the dial to the six o'clock news to catch the newest episodes now taking place at the Geneva Arms-Talks...
...growing number of cities, using only telephones, operate thriving hotlines. Brooklyn's Central Library, with funding from the New York City board of education, runs a homework hotline Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for all twelve grades. Another New York student service, Dial-A-Teacher, gets a fair number of calls from mothers and fathers trying to be home tutors. "Parents generally say to us that math is taught so much differently from when they attended school," observes Betty Holmes of the sponsoring United Federation of Teachers...