Word: geek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BILL BRADLEY (+5) A keeper. A foreign-trade geek with national stature, a battler and former pro-basketball player who can add sports-star pals to the Clinton cavalcade. Drawback: Is America ready for a double Rhodes Scholar ticket...
Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One image can melt into another, for example, as when Linda Hamilton turns into Robert Patrick in Terminator 2, right, or when disparate races, genders and ages blend together in Michael Jackson's video Black or White...
Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One image can melt into another, for example, as when Linda Hamilton turns into Robert Patrick in Terminator 2, right, or when disparate races, genders and ages blend together in Michael Jackson's video Black or White...
...which prides itself on how quickly it can knock the stuffing out of those who would run for President, has gone into a deep swoon over his candidacy, from which it will sooner or later recover. For the moment, reporters seem entranced by Clinton's persona: a good-government geek saved by a self-deprecating sense of humor. As chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group that wants to yank the party back to the center, Clinton's idea of a well-spent weekend is one given to working on welfare and education reform. Yet when he was introduced...
Brenda and Brandon had a hard time getting adjusted to West Beverly High, but they quickly made the friendships that will last as long as the show is on the air: Dylan is the loner; Steve, the jock; Kelly, the prom queen; Donna, the air head; David, the lovable geek; Andrea, the brilliant but sexually-repressed school newspaper editor. And, being from Beverly Hills, they are all beautiful people...