Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times as quick as the original. It is loud -- with stereo sound. It is expandable -- with six plug-in slots for peripheral devices. And for the first time on a Macintosh screen, it has color selected from a palette of 16 million hues and displayed on a 13-inch monitor. This week Apple Computer unveiled its Mac II, a spiffy unit priced at $3,899 (monitor not included). Yet the Mac II is most notable for a departure from Apple's previous products: with the proper accessories, it can run the huge library of software written...
...Bedtime. The overhead bulb is turned off, but the night-light allows the guards to check through the judas-hole in the door. They monitor him frequently, sliding the cover aside and peering in at the sleeping prisoner...
...applaud the Reagan Administration's increase in [research] funding, but we want to closely monitor theallocation of the funds," Vice President forGovernment and Community Affairs John Shattucksaid last week...
...black cowboy boots burnished, his blue pinstripe suit neatly pressed, stands in the corner of the windowless waiting room at ABC before going on Good Morning America. He is there to promote The Strategies of Zeus, his recently published spy novel about arms talks in Geneva. Watching the monitor, he hears the announcer telling viewers what is ahead: ". . . and we'll be talking with Gary Hart about the presidential election of 1988." Hart groans, "Oh, no," and then smiles sheepishly, as if to say, What can one expect...
...comedian. In this autobiography disguised as a letter to her three daughters, she runs through a series of blackout sketches that are by turns sad, hilarious and grotesque. Burnett grew up in a shabby Hollywood apartment with her beloved maternal grandmother. Nanny used to tie a rolled Christian Science Monitor around her waist so her "insides wouldn't fall out." She took Carol to the movies; then, "when it was time to go home, we'd go to the bathroom, and she'd empty all the toilet paper dispensers, sheet by sheet. And we'd be set for another...