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Word: robotical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...club also invested in a ping-pong playing robot, the NEWGI 2000, to help improve its competitiveness. The technology will allow club members to get quality practice even when the entire club is not meeting...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Who Needs Funding, Anyway? | 5/17/1995 | See Source »

Thieu had another caller on April 20: Nguyen Van Toan, commander of the ARVN third corps. Says Tran Can Van, Thieu's Minister of Housing who was at the Presidential Palace that day: "Toan normally swaggered around, but that day he was like a robot, in a trance. I said, 'Hello, General,' but he didn't answer. He kept walking toward Thieu. Thieu was really tough, one of those guys who, if you looked right into his eyes and tried to shoot him, you wouldn't be able to pull the trigger. But that day when Toan came in, Thieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAIGON: THE FINAL 10 DAYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...Sliders, filled with dialogue like "The guy is Three Mile Island--it's going to take him years to cool down," is a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for teenagers who actually read newspapers. The Outer Limits also dampens its chills with banal dialogue. In one episode, a voluptuous robot falls in love with a paralyzed scientist. His response to her kiss: "I couldn't stop thinking about your saliva. What is it made from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUT OF THIS WORLD | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...audience were taken aback. Supermodels like CLAUDIA SCHIFFER (with a swirly 'do) shared the catwalk with celebrities TIPPI HEDREN and PATTY HEARST, who stripped (somewhat awkwardly) down to sequins. Mugler wowed the crowd with ensembles made of tight black plastic, skirts that bloomed up from the waist and a robot suit that took six months to make. Said the designer to Le Figaro: "You can understand why I can't do this twice a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1995 | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct tape and cardboard. I stagger through a glitter gulch of Gummi fauna, Boston baked beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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