Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gray hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions, he mutates from a slightly curious homeowner to a horribly singed home wrecker. Hanks throws himself into this antiaudience movie with such suave energy that he seems determined to torpedo his hard...
...aroma of Harvard, where he studied and taught, is redolent in his manner as he discusses economic abstractions. Yet he harbors what he calls primitive views of patriotism. He was comfortable, as a Bush campaign adviser, arguing for continued emphasis on the Pledge of Allegiance issue when even his friend, Campaign Chairman James Baker, wanted to change the subject...
...number, judging from the commercial and critical successes of previous books -- will find much in Billy Bathgate that feels, initially, familiar. As in Ragtime (1975), this novel mingles fictional characters with historical ones: Schultz, Walter Winchell, Thomas E. Dewey. The setting combines Depression seediness and underworld glamour in a manner reminiscent of Loon Lake (1980). And this is not the first time Doctorow has written about a boy's coming of age in the Bronx; he did so in World's Fair (1985), even giving its made-up hero his own first name, Edgar. But the author is not simply...
...still-video cameras operate on the same basic principle. Light passes through a lens and strikes a flat electronic wafer called a charge-coupled device, which converts the image into electronic signals that are stored on a floppy disk in the same manner that a camcorder records the individual frames of a video movie. Once an image has been captured, it can be displayed on a TV, printed on paper or transmitted over telephone lines anywhere in the world. But whoever receives the images must have one of the cameras or other special equipment to view the pictures...
UNDER the new lottery system, eight of the 12 undergraduate houses will reserve 25 percent of their space for randomly assigned freshmen. The lottery will proceed in the same manner as it has in past years--except that freshmen will not know their numbers when they pick their top three choices. Because only eight of the houses have agreed to participate in the new plan, about 17 to 25 percent of freshmen will be assigned randomly, some to houses that have normally been filled on the first round of choices. In past years, usually 10 to 15 percent of freshmen...