Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience listened to him listen to himself, replay himself, and tape his reactions to the replays. Mercifully, by skillful use of some impressive high-tech equipment, director Adam Cherson has somewhat embellished the purity of this experience. In this new version, Krapp (David Gullette) sits facing a hidden video monitor, and his reproduced image faces the audience while the actor keeps his back to us, intently watching his younger self (Lorcan O'Neill) on a larger video screen. Having something to look at is a terrific relief; it just may be what turns the balance in this production from...
...Hacker's Dictionary, one finds gronk (a verb that means to become unusable, as in "the monitor gronked"), gweep (one who spends unusually long periods of time hacking), cuspy (anything that is exceptionally good or performs its functions exceptionally well), dink (to modify in some small way so as to produce large or catastrophic results), bag biter (equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently) and deadlock (a situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to do something. This is the electronic equivalent of gridlock, a lovely, virtually perfect word...
...that had been promised to China for its census and seismographic research. The Chinese accused the U.S. of "discrimination." They were particularly miffed since they have provided the Pentagon with access to useful information about Soviet military technology. Late in the Carter Administration, China agreed to let the U.S. monitor Soviet missile tests from top secret intelligence-gathering stations in Sinkiang province...
...Shcharansky saga began in 1974 when--a day after his wedding--his wife Avital was expelled from the country, while his application to emigrate was denied. Two years later, Shcharansky joined the underground Helsinki Watchdog Committee, which attempted to monitor Soviet violations of the Helsinki Final Act, a human rights charter signed a year earlier by 35 countries, including the U.S.S.R. If honored, that country would have permitted Shcharansky, along with other citizens with family in other countries to emigrate...
...right into the senior class at Crestridge High, where the calendar reads "Autumn 1982" but all available evidence indicates a stopover in the late 1950s. Crestridge is the sort of happy-go-lucky institution where Shelley Fabares ought to be the homecoming queen and Beaver Cleaver the hall monitor. It serves, however, as the unlikely temple of learning for Matthew Star, who is, literally, a space case. Matt (Peter Barton) is, as the opening narration informs, "a typical American teen-ager." It's just that he also happens to hail from Quadris, a distant planet racked by civil...