Word: slating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coupling the student booths with a mainstage slate of political speakers was also a good idea. It was sad, though, to see that the MTV "Choose or Lose" bus was attracting more attention from the crowd than George Stephanopoulous, Robert Reich, Barney Frank and Susan Weld. I was disappointed to see how few folks were paying attention to the stage during their excellent and often inspirational speeches...
...purse strings to torment Morris. Eight years older than Morris, Ickes belonged to the Democratic reformers who had taken power on the West Side in the early 1960s. Morris came at them in 1969 as leader of the "West Side Kids," setting up his own political clubhouses, running a slate of candidates for party district-leader slots and getting all seven elected--which gave him de facto control of a 30-block stretch. He flirted with the idea of running himself, then stashed those ambitions forever. "I preferred to be the cat with nine lives," he says. "If we lost...
...debut of SLATE, Microsoft's much awaited webzine, got plenty of attention from netizens last week, and not just for its catchy name. Seems the 'zine kicked some versions of Netscape Navigator, the Web's most popular browser, into an unrecoverable crash--and added grist to the Microsoft-wants-to-rule-the-world mill. Instead of seeing Slate's snappy commentary on politics and culture (excerpts of which also appear in TIME), Netscape 1.0 viewers were treated to a page of gibberish followed by a shutdown. Was the snafu a sign of incompetence, or was it, as conspiracy buffs asked...
Stonesifer's sense of what works and what doesn't will be critical if Microsoft is to succeed outside the personal computer industry. And the world won't have long to wait: Michael Kinsley's much anticipated Webzine, Slate, is scheduled to debut June 24, and msnbc Cable, the joint NBC-Microsoft all-news cable channel, is due this fall. If Stonesifer's track record is any gauge, both projects should draw a crowd...
...full slate of Senior Week events costs $76 per person...