Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a systematic campaign of harassment against the women who lived in Winthrop," says Katherine Park '72, now a professor of history at Wellesley...
...course of the past decade, the city has lived through three different epochs. First, that of perestroika and glasnost. At that time, in the second half of the 1980s, Moscow was transformed into a huge debating club, into a unique, peculiar Hyde Park. For the first time, there was freedom of speech. One could finally talk, express opinions. And one could write the truth. Dozens of newspapers and periodicals appeared; the print runs of even exclusively literary monthlies were in the millions. People bought these things, read them, collected them. Today in the cramped, cluttered apartments of intellectuals, against walls...
Check, check, check. Yep, they're all here, all the spy-movie conventions--right down to the hoariest of them all, two agents meeting at a park bench and identifying one another with a coded phrase. What is not present in Mission: Impossible (which, aside from the title, sound-track quotations from the theme song and self-destructing assignment tapes, has little to do with the old TV show) is a plot that logically links all these events or characters with any discernible motives beyond surviving the crisis of the moment...
Teaming up with Jim Clark, then chairman of Silicon Graphics and now at Netscape, Lincoln devised a plan to stuff the graphics-rendering power of a $90,000 SGI Reality Engine--the machine that created the T. rex in Jurassic Park--into a $250 box. The result was a calculated delay. After missing its self-imposed deadline last summer, Nintendo played the spoiler last Christmas, cutting into sales of Sony and Sega's $300 32-bit machines by dangling the promise of a cheaper and even more powerful player this spring. Sales of new video-game systems, which had dropped...
...weeks ago, Fox planted an experimental microphone in one of the bases at Baltimore's Oriole Park in the hope that Major League Baseball will approve miked bases for use when the network starts its Game of the Week telecasts on June 1. "We want to do everything possible to make viewers feel like they're sitting in the stadium," says Fox Sports president David Hill. "We want them to hear the ball hit the mitt or what a slide sounds like...