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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lilah at first sees her personal life as sacred and devoid of humor. But her earliest real success comes when Steven drags her into a spontaneous appearance at a club. Forced to go on without her prepared Polish jokes, she reaches into her own experiences and gets some real laughs. (Gazing dubiously at the gifts circulating at a bachelorette party in the audience, she quips, "I don't want to do anything intimate with anything that's got a 90-day warranty.") Later, at the Gas Station, her cracks about her own family and sex life bring down the house...
...Stands savors the long blue benches of Changch'ung gymnasium, where the scoreboard announces that D. Hee is the winner of what it calls the "Light Women" taekwondo division. And he is among the earliest to know that the first American winner in the 1988 Games was a personable young taekwondoist from Chicago called Arlene Limas. When Arlene mounted the stand and waited for the first playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, however, there was only silence. Then more silence. At last, as the uneasy quiet dragged on, a few of the friends who had come all the way from...
...idea of an electronic virus was born in the earliest days of the computer era. In fact, it was Computer Pioneer John von Neumann who laid out the basic blueprint in a 1949 paper titled "Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata." If most of his colleagues found the idea that computer programs might multiply too fantastic to be taken seriously, they can be forgiven, for the paper predated the first commercial electronic computers by several years. But a handful of scientists quietly pursued Von Neumann's ideas, keeping them alive in the scientific literature until they sprang to life...
...letter sent to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis on Wednesday, Vellucci invited the Democratic presidential candidate to attend a City Council meeting "on a Monday evening at your earliest convenience," and lead the Council in the Pledge of Allegiance...
...curious example of violence spilling over from the arena into the streets, Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson and one of his earliest ring conquests staged an impromptu rematch in New York City around 4:30 a.m. outside a 125th Street haberdashery that boasts a formidable clientele. Anyone purchasing a necktie at that hour better at least have been the champion of the Pacific fleet. After giving Mitch ("Blood") Green a Carmen Basilio facial, crumpling one of his licensed hands in the process, Tyson momentarily faced charges brought not by the law but by Green. They were eventually dropped...