Word: morphing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...share from Google is naive," says Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn. He likens this period to the DOS era of search, with a major scramble ahead for the next generation of search tools. Google's Mayer agrees that the vanilla results page that Google and others serve today will probably morph into something categorically different, with images, videos and even conversations among Web users replacing static text links...
...think that's far-fetched. But the threat that black boxes will morph into a continuous system is less likely if you have a regulation which doesn't allow that. I prefer to have a federal regulation that says [to automakers], ?You can only do this' - rather than let them do what they want on own. Once companies put in their systems, they are not going to want to pay for retooling...
...This sylvan realm is populated by stickbugs that morph into fairies, a toad the size of a Studebaker and, ruling them all, a seven-foot-tall Pan, the goat-god. He knows Ofelia as soon as she enters his underground home, identifying her as the long-lost Princess Moanna. He tells her she will reach her destiny - will "stroll through the seven circular gardens of your palace" - if she can accomplish three difficult tasks. One is to get a key that the toad has swallowed. The second: use that key to unlock a door in the lair of the Pale...
...into a stage that looks like a medieval catacomb and shows them, on a giant TV screen, computer projections of what their kids will look like at age 40 if they keep gorging on sugar and fried food. In the pilot, the parents watch, horrified, as their three sons morph and swell into pallid, pimply, ill-groomed tubs who look vaguely like serial killers. For some reason, the computer model assumes that junk food motivates men to grow bad facial hair...
...really like Shakespeare,” she said. Non-resident Lowell tutor Leslie E. Eckel ’98 said “Hamlet” was the play of choice because winter is the season for tragedy—although she acknowledged that the performance did morph into a comedy. “We did it to bring some drama and to have a literary evening in Lowell,” she said. Erwin explained that Lowell used to have a drama society, but, since no one has time for rehearsals, putting on last-minute plays is a better...