Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then Realtron hopes to have its intercity circuits working effectively. First two areas to start exchanging data will be northern Virginia and Detroit. Pictures of the homes will be converted into small film clips and flashed on a screen, thus bringing closer the day when families can pick their houses across the U.S. on a national computer network as easily as if they were house hunting down the street...
...sheep, rather than lead them." At one church convention, Fry was explaining a complicated motion when one delegate said: I'm not quite clear. I'm afraid I fell off at the last turn." "That's all right," Fry answered imperturbably, "I'll pick you up right after this vote...
...police confiscated all issues of the Massachusetts Free Press, which Harvard students were distributing outside the Stadium. The Press supported the impending state referendum legalizing the dispensation of birth control information by doctors. Boston's finest ended the effort because, as they explained, "someone would have to come and pick up all the pamphlets that were dropped in the streets...
People like the author of this book are the unthinking modern literary entrepreneurs who have adapted them-selves to "what works" in a big-corporation, big-media society. They are people concerned with "making it" in a life whose morality is outlined by television serials and legal codes. They pick up the style, the technique, and the rhetoric of already outdated reporting without seeking a truth, a meaning, an intelligent purpose for the books they write...
Meanwhile, back in private life, all is not so well. Joe and his wife Karen (Lee Remick) split up. That is bad enough, but then it turns out that she is a nymphomaniac who likes to pick up guys in bars. His world is coming apart, and so is the movie-with a rush of irrelevancies about slum conditions and precinct-house rivalries. Suddenly, a complex new subplot is folded into the proceedings, about a financial wheeler-dealer who commits suicide...