Word: glitching
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...sel’gen Base” (“My late cousin once dreamed”), an unexpected bang shot through the theatre. The overhead screen projecting the English translations of the sung German had gone blank, and would remain so for the rest of the performance.The computer glitch proved providential for the opera’s singers. One imagines the backstage panic: “Look, folks, the supertitles are out! The audience will not know what’s happening if you continue to move about like flannel-wearing robots at a sausage shop. You must...
While Mitchell said the “glitch in communication” would be fixed, an earlier exchange with HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano suggested that the area might need more work...
...headed into the last 100m, Phelps was already 1.40 seconds under his world record and the crowd roared into action - enough to bring Bush out of his seat, waving the American flag. Indeed, the only glitch came later on the medal stand, during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, which cut off a few seconds before the end. Phelps didn't mind; the moment was emotional enough already, and he admitted to being too choked up to sing along anyway. The next time Phelps will potentially hear the anthem will be Monday when he goes in the 4x100m freestyle...
...Johnsonesque (Lyndon, not Samuel), and the assignments are rarely more demanding than ''Representative Whipple has told me a great deal about the fine work you ladies are doing in the Leesburg Macrame and Dialysis Society.'' The President barely knows the name of this second-string hack until a bureaucratic glitch awards Burnham a ''Q'' clearance to receive atomic secrets. Though he has no idea what to do with them, or with the accompanying paper shredder, he soon attracts the attention of Soviet spies, jealous White House insiders and, worse, the President, who makes him a trusted adviser. Benchley's story...
...order to sleep in a warm, safe place. They play a cat-and-mouse game with police, often donning floral shirts, fanny packs and other travel accessories to blend in. And their increasing ability to disappear in Heathrow's swelling crowds of delayed passengers--bolstered last month by the glitch-plagued opening of a new terminal--has prompted the airport to try a new approach...