Word: savvyness
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Once or twice a decade, the geek visionaries at Industrial Light & Magic concoct a special effect that wows even jaded, high-tech-savvy audiences. The latest is morphing, as in metamorphosis, a technique that reduces a film image to a numerical code that a computer can manipulate almost endlessly. One...
Now those same technologies -- and a few new ones -- are finding their way into tools used by weekend do-it-yourselfers, a group swelled by large numbers of electronics-savvy baby boomers. Some of these tools, like the electronic tire gauge, may be too smart for their own good, and...
Why did Governor PETE WILSON say he would "very likely" sign California's gay-rights bill, only to veto it five months later? Presidential ambition. Savvy politicos noted that as soon as Wilson won the close-fought gubernatorial campaign a year ago, he began setting his sights on a 1996...
Getting Dirt into the right hands -- the target age is 14 to 20 -- was a matter of finding out where the boys are. The first issue has been given savvy packaging as a separate 23-page supplement to the September copy of Sassy (total paid circ. 631,000), and to...
He's been compared to the young Jimmy Stewart, he favors jeans and sneakers, and his command of American political history is better than that of some people on Capitol Hill. Word is that Sergei Stankevich, 37, the deputy mayor of Moscow, may soon be appointed Soviet ambassador to the...