Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nostalgia for yesterday's pop culture. Old movie clips and '60s hit tunes adorn the show wherever possible; a cover story on kids today (part of a five- part series on, no less, "living in the U.S.A.") was little more than an excuse to trot out scenes from Our Gang comedies. The show's animated graphics are state-of-the-art slick, and its four anchors state-of-the-art cute. But little stays on the screen long enough to register, and anything that does hardly seems worth the trouble. We hate...
...called Gang of Nine has seized the opportunity to part with IBM because they believe the computer maker took a wrong turn in its evolution of the PC when the company introduced its new line of Personal System/2 computers in April 1987. For the more powerful machines in the PS/2 series, the company drastically revamped the wiring, known as a bus, through which bits of data travel to various parts of the computer. The new bus, which IBM calls the Micro Channel, enables a computer user to perform such functions as writing and printing simultaneously instead of having to perform...
...dissident group hopes to attract IBM's disaffected customers by offering a new system that will be compatible with the old standard but faster and more powerful. However, the Gang of Nine has not yet finished designing its new circuitry, and is not expected to bring any products on the market for at least a year. Says William Lowe, head of the IBM unit that produces its PCs: "All they're showing now is a set of charts...
MARRIED TO THE MOB. The Mafia takes a ribbing in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a Mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord...
Bentsen toured the Los Angeles Country Sheriff's "Operation Safe Streets" program in the Carson area, a major site of violent gang activities, and took the occasion to blast Bush's role in the administration's anti-drug campaign...