Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything from a long weekend to a week or more. Typically, hands-on classes with the machines begin right after breakfast and continue until lunch. In the afternoon, such activities as hiking and boating are offered, although most campers head back to the keyboards for marathon sessions that may drag on until lights out. But it is not all work and no play. Says Eugene Galanter, who runs the Summer Computer Institute at Amherst College in Massachusetts: "We also have an occasional break for martinis...
...mother, 68, and her two children, Candy, 7, and Mark, 13, to Clarkson College's Family Computer Camp in Potsdam, N.Y. At first, she was fearful that a heavy dose of computerese would bore her parent. Not so. "She was absolutely riveted," says Messinger. "We had to drag her away from the machine just to make sure she got nourishment...
...German but also about American resolve, thereby threatening the entire missile deployment scheme. Washington will not have to worry about Britain. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is so committed to the NATO decision that she will deploy cruise missiles at the end of the year, even if the West Germans drag their feet...
Hula-Hoops. Frisbees. Drag races. The pizza parlor. One or more of these images will bring back the summers of their adolescence for many Americans who grew up in the '50s or early '60s. For others, however, one phrase says it all: the drive-in. They probably had their first date in a 1957 gas guzzler, with wraparound windows and sharklike tailfins, where they learned that sex is not just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much...
...Japanese cinema has returned to the exotic isolation of its earliest years. Moviegoing in Japan at the turn of the century was an experience more closely allied to other national arts than to the nickelodeon fever of the West. Until 1918 female roles were played by Kabuki actors in drag. Until the arrival of talking pictures in 1931, audiences depended upon spellbinding narrators called benshi to interpret the on-screen action; many were more popular than the country's movie stars. Though Japanese cinema was a strong force in Asia (so much so that in Thailand the word nippon...