Word: smartened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barlett and Steele's America, the middle-class voter ends up looking like someone who gets mugged and begs for more. After all, it was the middle class that elected all those fellows, on both sides of the aisle, who so loyally serve the rich. Maybe now we'll smarten up and learn how to hold on to our wallets. Or maybe the dread class war is already over, and the suits have run away with the loot...
Well, listen up, rockheads. You're about to become the hippest form of computer nerds. You'd better smarten up too, because there's work to do, and lots of creative play. More than 5 million of you in North America have CD-ROM or Philips CD-i players, and that number is expected to double by year's end and treble by 1996. Get ready to hook up those players to your computers and home entertainment centers, fork over $25 to $100 a disk and jam with your favorite artist. Passivity is passe; tubby time is over. Here comes...