Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was always uncertainty behind my defense of Dylan: Was I championing, in a figurative sense, a dead man? Since I have never heard him live in concert, it was difficult for me to determine whether he was all hype hiding behind a veneer of legend and recording technology. The question was never whether his heart was healthily thumping away, rather, very pragmatically, if I saw him in concert, was he going to suck? And therein lies the peculiarity of affection: it fears the possibility of change. For our purposes, that would result if the familiar image of good Dylan...
...company that's doing this in the biggest way is NeoPlanet. If you've heard of them, you probably know them as the outfit that made the Austin Powers browser. When you install NeoPlanet's software (it's free, but you need to have a PC running Internet Explorer 4.0) what it does, essentially, is bury your copy of IE inside a new improved interface. The cool thing is, NeoPlanet's interface is better. MORE...
...never been a sucker for freebies, knowing all too well that they're usually more hassle than they're worth. So when I heard about all the new free-PC offers, I couldn't help wincing. Companies like Gobi, Intersquid and ePCdirect require you to pay up to $30 a month for Net access and are rife with hidden fees for basics like a monitor, tech support and one-time "start-up" charges. And then there's the nagging fear that these newcomers will vanish into cyberspace long before your three-year contract is up. Would you really want...
...hard you'd have thought I was asking for a loan, not trying to make a deposit. Times have changed. The loan officer isn't friendlier. But the teller accepts every penny I find, and lately I've been looking under seat cushions. In case you haven't heard, there's a penny shortage. It's so severe that a bank in my neighborhood pays 55[cents] for 50 pennies, and some restaurants offer free desserts to anyone hauling in enough coin...
...have little to say about the dark-horse candidate? There's a perception in the Democratic cloakroom that anyone who publicly speaks well of him these days will pay a price. "It's been made clear to me that the things I say about Bradley that are nice are heard in Gore's office," says Delaware's Joe Biden, who may endorse Bradley. Biden isn't sweating, and the threats haven't kept Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Bob Kerrey of Nebraska from endorsing him, but other Senators feel the heat. "There is a clear message that there shouldn...