Word: frontal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...within our computers, waiting to explode. We can't see them. We don't understand them. But they can make our lives hell. According to The Boston Globe's reassuring article on viruses Wednesday (soothingly titled "COMPUTER KILLERS"), Michelangelo will do to a hard drive what a high-speed frontal collision will do to a car. No wonder people were wigging out yesterday...
...sensible compromise -- to release Basic Instinct in both its original (NC-17) and moderated (R) versions -- is not allowed by the motion-picture association. The probable outcome is that like other films embroiled in ratings wrangles, Basic Instinct will be shown fig-leafed in the U.S. but fully frontal abroad and, later, on home video. In that scenario, the bluenoses and bean counters win; consenting adults and ambitious moviemakers lose. And once again a crucial question goes begging: if movies are allowed to make violence terrifying -- as in such acclaimed dramas as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear...
Several complex sexual differences emerged. Men with lower verbal IQs were more likely to have their language skills located toward the back of the brain. In a number of women, regardless of IQ, the naming ability was restricted to the frontal lobe. This disparity could help explain why strokes that affect the rear of the brain seem to be more devastating to men than to women...
...Massachusetts first-term Republican Governor William Weld and Democrats in the state legislature are mounting a frontal assault against tenure. Weld wants to allow school principals free rein to make hiring and firing decisions without reference to tenure or job seniority. Weld is also calling for teachers to be recertified every five years after taking competency tests. "This isn't anti-teacher," says Weld. "It's anti-slob teacher...
...President was exactly in character. He was at pains to say how much he likes George Bush. He was communications director in the Reagan-Bush Administration and has dined with the current First Family in their private White House quarters. But Buchanan has his reasons for launching a full-frontal assault against the fellow Republican he likes so much. For Buchanan, Bush is insufficiently Buchanan- like -- not nativist, rightist, homophobic, authoritarian or anti-Israel enough...