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...give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster of "competence" and computer-friendly conduct, Michael Dukakis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Populist | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...monster, a terrorist? Why? Who says that? I can't accept your saying it. George Washington was called a terrorist by the British. De Gaulle was called a terrorist by the Nazis. What can they say about the P.L.O., except to repeat this slogan? We are freedom fighters, and we are proud of it. According to international law and the United Nations Charter, I have the right to resist Israeli occupation. I don't want to harm anybody. But look how they are treating my people. These savage, barbarian, fascist practices against our children, our women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Yasser Arafat: Knowing the Enemy | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...insinuate that racism is involved in the furlough issue operates from the ridiculous premise that Black citizens care less about having a monster in their neighborhoods like Willie Horton than do white people," Goodin said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bentsen, Jackson Criticize Bush Ads | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory to its fate. So much corn has an unexpected rich barnyard kind of smell, a cloying excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush T shirts. On the other side of the factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...bother reaching for your calculator. To turn this 100-digit monster into its indivisible primes -- as in reducing 15 to the product of 3 and 5 -- would ordinarily require the undivided attention of a supercomputer for as long as two months. But last week the record-size problem was solved after just 26 days by a group of more than 50 smaller machines scattered across the U.S., Europe and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Quick, What Are the Prime Factors | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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