Word: peeking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...brings out the child in you. A tactile delight, you start by rubbing your hand over the ribbed cardboard tube that wraps around the box like the cozies they put around your morning coffee cup. Small squares and circles have been handcut into the cardboard, so creatures underneath can peek out the windows. Slip it off and you see the inner jacket that forms the small, four and half by six-inch box. It unfurls completely into a bright pink, blue and yellow abstraction on one side and a black and white checkerboard on the other. Like a present...
...Take a peek under your desk. See that snarl of cables, leads, paper clips and lost printouts cascading from the butt end of your PC? Well, etch the ugly sight into your memory for nostalgic reference. Computer cables are going the way of eight-tracks, pet rocks and typewriters. A wireless revolution is seeping into our homes, schools, offices and gathering points very quietly, and setting up what appears to be a face-off between two competing technical standards...
Stop number one? Les Mis. Why? Well, I don’t know exactly, it wasn’t my pick. Actually, I love the show and was not disappointed at the prospect of seeing it on the West End and getting a peek at how long-running mega-musicals look over there. In the case of Les Mis, at least, they don’t look too good; it is the first show I have ever left at intermission. There was no passion, no movement, no acting—and therefore, no me to begin...
...Exclusive sneak peek: the report will find the economy still weak, particularly in manufacturing. Hide the children...
...discovery of the Iceman jolted the archaeological community because of the peek it provided into Stone Age life. The Alpine cold and snow preserved not only the ancient man's bone and tissue but also his clothes and tools. What was lost to history was the cause of death, and investigators assumed that he had died in a fall or had fallen asleep and succumbed to the cold...