Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts agree, is that the Soviets could not be certain. That would be part of their gamble. The President would have only about 20 minutes to make the awful decision to launch on warning. He would have to rely on the absolute fidelity of U.S. warning devices and the instant wisdom of his advisers. Concludes Brown: "Launch on warning is a dangerous policy because it means going to war on the basis of a computer...
...Instant backlash strikes Ellen. Her unseen husband has barely leafed through the last page when he leaves her and the children in a foul snit. The play's focus and flavor are pinpointed in the first sentence of Ellen's book: "My mother always told me to stick with winners. But if I had, I'd never have met my four friends...
...Green England is far more an emotional than an intellectual concept," Fowles wrote. "What we have done is to transfer the England of the trees to our minds." There, for an instant, we may see-and thus hope for-the England this Prince and Princess will one day rule. It will be far from the New Jerusalem. But still it may be close enough to catch a phantom glimpse of the greenwood. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Bonnie Angelo, with the London bureau
...have too many flavors, then they mask each other and you end with a mishmash. But there was that very simple recipe that we did on television. You spoon a little bourbon whisky over vanilla ice cream and sprinkle on some finely powdered instant coffee. That makes a delicious dessert...
Plugged-in writing is not a new phenomenon. In 1973 Hersey tried out electronic fiction writing in order to aid a Yale University computer project-and became an instant convert. But it took a while to get the gadget out of the institution and into the study. Once Carter was pictured composing his memoirs on the Lanier "No Problem," authors and others could easily imagine themselves at the console. Spurred by the new availability of word-processing programs for personal computers like Radio Shack, Apple and Atari, demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael...