Word: laptop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond this quibble, however, 'Monster' contains more than enough cautionary experience to be a required text for anyone thinking about leaving his day job to write the great American screenplay...
Between the hours of 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. late Monday night, an IBM laptop, a walkman and $10 disappeared from an unlocked Hollis Hall room, in what one of the victims believes was a robbery carried out by a fellow student...
...policeman came over, and he made it sound as if this kind of thing happened often, like it was the work of a professional," Manjapra said. "But it seems like it would have had to be a person who knew I had a laptop and who knew the door would be open. I personally think it was a student...
Manjapra said that he believed that the thief showed unusual attention to detail, removing his computer's Ethernet card and disassembling its power supply before stowing it in his laptop case, crossing the room to take the walkman and searching through the drawers of his dresser...
...marvel the weight of trouble a family can buoy you through. I like her best when she admits, "I would come home from the office some days and want to smash the laptop over his head," rather than read his manuscript over Indian food, as she often did, carefully excising references to herself. But I admire that she honored the "for worse" part of her vows instead of running to Oprah when the world came crashing down around her. She turned down all television offers. "I didn't owe anyone an explanation of who I am." She's barreled through...