Word: fingernail
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...school, Ozbek dressed like a Lou Reed rock-'n'-roll animal, right down to faithful applications of black fingernail polish, but the clothes he has been designing for his label since the spring of 1985 have a refinement that makes them seem both worldly and weightless. He likes to structure the top ! half of an outfit with heavier fabrics like cashmere or gabardine, then use an airy silk or supple jersey to soften up things below. "My clothes are not of the moment," Ozbek says, speaking in his hurried, lightly accented English. "Take all the accessories away, and they...
...major producer, is determined to help lead a U.S. counteroffensive. The company is rolling out devilishly tiny weapons, among them the world's first four-megabit chip, a supersophisticated semiconductor that can store more than 4 million bits of information on a wafer the size of a child's fingernail. Declares Norman Neureiter, a Texas Instruments vice president: "The U.S. semiconductor industry is not rolling over and dying...
...pastoral imagery and retooled in terms of media glut. Hey, look! you hear the nasal voice of the artist saying: this is what the banks of the electronic Mississippi look like as they glide by. Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger than life: a red fingernail the size of a mudguard, a slough of squirming orange spaghetti, a girl whose perfect, impersonal beauty has to advertise something other than herself, the black void of outer space, a paper clip, crinkled silver Mylar and bristling sheaves of fiber-optic cables and the Ford in your future...
...think there was a "false fingernail coordinator," in case someone broke a nail...
...bottleneck by overwhelming it with processors, 65,536 of them. Acting in concert, they can handle massive amounts of data. Equally important, each processor is assigned its own tiny memory bank. This means that processing and memory, once separated by a narrow channel, are now integrated within a fingernail-size piece of silicon. Moreover, each processor is directly or indirectly connected to every other one through what is in effect a miniature telephone system with 4,096 switching stations and 24,576 trunk lines that can be programmed and reprogrammed without actually changing the computer's wiring...