Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satisfaction without sentiment."I hate nostalgia," he said, "but I've made a hell of a living from it." So have his successors, who have continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized...
...Internet. The network was designed to be open and easily accessible, and new Internet software, like Sun Microsystems' Java, adds a whole new layer of insecurity. Java can liven up a Website with movies and animations sent to visitors' computers as little applications, or "applets." Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser had a loophole big enough to let through all manner of software viruses. Netscape...
...craziest drug you ever took?" So when someone we'll call "Demonboy" flashed me an invitation to accompany him into a "private room," I assumed he was just hungry for a higher order of chat. A few clicks of the mouse, and we were alone on the screen, where DB announced his topic of choice: "Can we undress...
...turned him over my knee and spanked him (which, sadly, he might have liked) or poked him in the eye with a sharp stick. I'm not even sure whether to call this sexual harassment, since it wasn't actually me being subjected to his fantasy but only my screen name, Barbeh. And it was my own fault, wasn't it, for picking an obviously femme handle, one that I see now must sound like some Stone Age stripper's stage name...
DIED. EIJI OKADA, 75, Japanese screen actor admired around the world for his roles as an architect in the French film Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), a head of state in the U.S. drama The Ugly American (1963) and an insect collector in the Japanese classic Woman in the Dunes (1964); in Tokyo...