Word: lim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Space Odyssey, but still a primitive art in the real world. Computers are not yet discerning enough to cope with the ambiguities of spoken language or with a wide range of accents and tonal qualities. Making sense out of human discourse, says Dataquest Analyst Kenneth Lim, "is quite possibly the most difficult thing for a computer to do, other than actually thinking...
...quiet interlude is broken by a ringing phone. It is Rally's mother telling lim that she is bringing his crippled, alcoholic father home from his latest hospital stay. The boy remonstrates with her and, almost in tears, finally blurts out, "I'm warning you now; when the two of you start fighting again, I'm leaving home!" What follows is an example of Fugard's psychological astuteness. For the father he cannot strike, Hally substitutes the father who cannot retaliate. He tongue-lashes Sam for not doing his work, not keeping his place, not showing...
...issue this week are budget resolutions meant to set the broad outlines of economic policy, including spending lim its, tax revenues and budget deficits. None are legally binding on the Congress; they are meant mainly to impress the will of the majority on committees of the two houses that will later work out the many laws that must be enacted to produce a final economic package. Still, any consensus that develops this week could critically influence the legislation. That is why Ronald Reagan's first national address since a gunman's bullet missed his heart by a mere...
...flights up from lis "semi-ex-wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow...