Word: pleasers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hitech shares a special table, strategically located near a phone jack and an electrical outlet, with a second computer contestant named BP. BP runs on a Compaq PC, a crowd pleaser with its flashy electronic chessboard. Hitech is not even physically present. An ungainly-looking brute, with circuit boards that poke out of a metal rack like truncated wings, Hitech remains in Pittsburgh, hidden away in a laboratory on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, where Berliner teaches computer science...
...real-life news by about 12 months. It pitted Holly R. Thanthou, a fiery, flock-bilking television evangelist against assorted others bent on exposing his less-than-upstanding life, or at least that's what people who saw it say. It was, according to those people, not a crowd-pleaser...
...shows, was emotional restitution, and they were willing to spend millions in lawyers' fees to receive a portion of it. There are enough miseries, furies and counterplots to satisfy the most demanding court buffs and gossip freaks, but the book's essential message is a reliable old crowd pleaser: unlimited funds are no guarantor of happiness; if the wound is deep enough, mere money is only a Band...
...crowd pleaser onstage was Jimmy Swaggart, 51, the flashy Louisiana Pentecostalist who ranks as one of the top TV evangelists in the U.S. In recent years Swaggart has built a surprisingly large and significant following abroad, especially in Latin America. In January he packed the 80,000-seat National Stadium in Santiago, Chile. Last week he wound up a swing through the Central American nations of El Salvador and Costa Rica, and later this year will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Panama and Honduras...
...real crowd-pleaser is Spike Lee himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful...