Word: froths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't even been up to our rooms." ("Degenerate" is an acknowledged category of gambler in Las Vegas, one step ahead of "compulsive" on the road to ruin.) In perfect synchronization, the two women lean over with brushes in both hands, and each beats her hair into a froth. Upright again, both declare, "Ugh! Straw!" The little bimbo says, "I'd never put color on my hair. People would think I was phony...
Behind the fun and froth was a hard sell. IBM unveiled a highspeed, high-power desktop model long referred to in the industry as "Popcorn." Officially named the PC AT (for advanced technology), the computer has at least twice the information-storage capacity of any other personal computer on the market. The firm also announced its first PC network, a system that will allow dozens of office workers to hook their computers together so they can use the same business data. In addition, IBM displayed a new program called Topview that lets a user split a computer screen into several...
Chebrikov: No, nothing of the sort! We are going to have to live with Womack for a while: he is scheduled to remain chairman of Harvard's History department for one more year. Our only danger is that our chief moles at Harvard, the Republican Club, will froth like they did last year when they attacked Womack and that wimpy liberal Stanley Hoffman as an example of Harvard's purportedly leftist faculty. That would undoubtedly whip up more liberal sentiment, the kind of goo-goo feeling I don't like to deal with...
...charge like cavalry in the vastness of the Sahara. Outriders hang from the sides, firing their AK-47s with deadly grace. Very young and therefore very brave, the men of these small fighting units, or escadrons, whip their Toyotas' flanks until the vehicles seem to snort and froth at the bit like fine-blood Arab stallions. The young soldiers move silently, without war cries except for the high-pitched scream of their engines...
...view of his tunes, and it suffuses some of his best paintings. The Man at the Café, 1914, looks at first like a conventional cubist figure, the clues to its presence being the hat, the blue hand holding a newspaper, and the stein of beer with its " white froth. But if one reads the glued-on newspaper he is reading, the main story turns out to be about art forgery and how fingerprinting might be used as proof of authenticity...