Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report said U.S. investigators believe that Vesco's operatives set up business at Norman's Cay. Vesco allegedly paid about $100,000 a month to Bahamian officials, including the Prime Minister, Sir Lynden Pindling...
...year-old bureaucrat from Queens, N.Y., investigating claims for the Social Security Administration. Each night he is transformed into "Sir Weej," a pseudonymous writer whose breezy essays on music, politics and life in the electronic age have attracted scores of readers. His followers, however, do not look for him on the printed page. Sir Weej's medium is his modem, the book-size box that connects his home computer to his telephone and puts him in touch with similarly equipped people all over the nation. "I feel as though a world has opened here in my living room...
...Although Sir Weej, whose real name is Luigi, spends a couple of hours a day hunched over his terminal, he is neither a computer professional nor a thrill-seeking whiz kid. He is just an ordinary citizen who yearns to communicate. Along with tens of thousands of other computer owners who share that urge, Sir Weej has discovered that he can tap into the outside world with his home machine for more than just a peek at stock quotes and airline schedules or an occasional trespass on the turf of the military-industrial complex. Increasingly, as more and more home...
Part of the appeal of the computer networks is voyeuristic: like party lines in the early days of telephones, they permit strangers to listen in on personal conversations. Although some may find the fishbowl atmosphere intimidating, others, like Sir Weej, are exhilarated to discover an audience that will respond to their thoughts. "I sense fertile ground here," he says. "I have not felt so connected and vital in a long time...
...ruthless romanticism-the kind that can curdle into narcissism if the sun shines too long on it-gives his records some of the trappings of a visionary quest. Indeed, Rock Critic Paul Nelson has described Browne as a sort of rock-'n'-roll Sir Gawain. Browne never wears much armor-vulnerability is a great part of his appeal, both as a writer and performer-but in the past he would sometimes get knocked right off his high white horse by the density of his subject matter...