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Computers have been part of our lives here for more than two decades. But the machines represented different generations and were not always able, as computer lingo puts it, to talk to one another. In 1987 editorial operations director Gerard C. Lelievre decided that it was time for all our machines to speak the same language. He set out to combine all stages of creating an issue of TIME -- from words, design and pictures to print -- into a seamless electronic process. Lelievre was interested in more than scoring a technological breakthrough. "Computers give editors more flexibility and more control...
...pity: Joe loves Kitty, goes to the lockup, survives the schemes of bad villains with the help of good villains, and gets out to find true-blue Kitty and the child he has never seen waiting for him. The best of the book is Morgan's wildly reinvented con lingo. His ear fails him occasionally, when he uses lace-curtain language -- "caparisoned," "implacable mien" -- that some editor should have yanked from the manuscript with tongs. But at other times he's cooking: "Saturday night movies in the Gym were the social climax of the week. Everyone...
...members want money and status faster, and are willing to kill to obtain them. Asked to identify his role models, one 14-year-old cited the cocaine-snorting protagonist of the movie Scarface and Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca. "Lee Iacocca is smooth and he be dissing ((disrespecting, in street lingo)) everybody," the youth explained. In some cases, parents encourage their children's criminal careers. Said one: "My momma talk about how proud she is of me making doughski. She used to dog me and say I wasn't s---, but now she's proud...
...thing I'd ever done or the worst thing." Freedman cut the deal with Playmates Toys, who, in turn, sponsored the first TV episodes. The Turtles have been modified somewhat in the process of being turned into media stars. Their passion for pizza, for instance, and their "Hey, Dude" lingo were added for TV. So was an unfortunate -- and publicly criticized -- tendency for punks and villains on the show to fall into racial stereotypes. As far as the movie is concerned, box-office expectations are high. "Everything that has to do with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been successful...
Millions of years ago, hot springs laden with flecks of gold boiled up through deep fractures in the earth's crust. But the golden residue did not accumulate in rich veins. Instead, in geologists' lingo, it "disseminated" throughout the siltstone and limestone laid down by an ancient ocean. Small wonder, then, that old-time prospectors overlooked it. "This gold," marvels Livermore, "is so fine you just can't pan it. You can't even see it under an ordinary microscope...