Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incident in particular encapsulizes the sadness Oney found in Leary. Oney stopped into a bar--"a little tar-paper walled shack"--one evening and struck up a conversation with a middle-aged Black man who worked in a peanut warehouse. The two men became hungry, and drove some 30 miles in Oney's car to a steak house. But as the men got in line to order, Oney suddenly realized from his companion's confused look that his new friend was illiterate. Oney's discomfort grew when the two reached the salad bar--and he realized his acquaintance "didn...
August, the Williams persona (Craig Smith), lives in a shack on the dunes, writing his first major play and trying to entangle Kip, a dancer and Nijinsky look-alike (Elton Cormier), in his grimy bedsheets. But both Kip and Clare (Dominique Cieri), who acts as his protector, are doomed, he by a brain tumor, she by diabetes. The entire work is shadowed by death, which is approaching as quickly as the fall. Both characters seem so tentative, however, that it is even hard to imagine that the end, when it occurs, will matter much to them or anyone else...
...personal-computer sales have been dominated by Apple, Tandy's Radio Shack and Commodore. Those three cornpanies together have 75% of the market. But competition is growing. In addition to IBM, Japan's Nippon Electric, Hitachi and Fujitsu are all preparing to begin selling personal computers...
...author of April in Paris, Screenwriter Melville Shavelson converted his Radio Shack home computer into a word processor with the addition of inexpensive software. This double-barreled capacity to tap and then manipulate information allows him a futuristic scope: "I subscribe to a Virginia computer service called The Source. I can get Jack Anderson scoops three days before they're scoops," claims Shavelson. "I can feed into it any two cities in the world and it'll figure out the airline connections for me, with a restaurant guide to various cities. Also I have a research service...
...text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit, 30, recently heard a zap, and his Radio Shack TRS-80 stopped dead. It seemed that ants had crawled into the air vents...