Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though he operated in Colorado, Adrian Williams dressed like the stereotypical Los Angeles gang member--baggy clothes, gold chains, a blue head rag. He went by the name ``A-Bone'' and allegedly led a local group called 187 Anybody Killer Crips, modeled after a Los Angeles original (187 is the State of California code for homicide). He had even tried to emulate Los Angeles-style interstate drug dealing, but he had been robbed of $35,000 while trying to purchase cocaine in Los Angeles. Now, however, Q guaranteed to ship him a regular supply of dope in return for half...
Scribble, the narrator, and his gang of no-goods are seriously messing with "vurt," or virtual reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
...Related to problem 1: Harvard has no go-to guy to pick up the slack. Steve Martins is a hell of a player, but he is double-teamed, triple-teamed, gang-tackled, you name...
Penn wasn't the only team to gang up on Columbia and Cornell last week. Princeton also got in on the act with a 28 point victory over Columbia and a 26 point victory over Cornell...
...wrote his first story for TIME--on people in the U.S. returning their holiday computer gifts because they didn't work--a week before he was scheduled to report for duty. HarperCollins has just published his third book (written with his wife, Michelle Slatalla), Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace, about an on-line ``war'' between hacker gangs. Quittner, who got his first computer in 1979, has watched the interest in his field grow exponentially. ``People who used to be afraid of computers now can't seem to get enough of them,'' he says. ``Writing about this stuff...