Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also download the patch manually from the Web, however, without paying Microsoft $89 to fix its screwup (see time.com/personal for instructions). Netscape, which claims the bug is harder to invoke in its software, initially told users to wait for a fix later this month. Now a "smart update" is supposed to be released this week...
...murder. He becomes a hostage taker, hoping to put pressure on his bosses to clear his name. He'll talk only with his one equal in this dangerous line of work, Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Two strong actors in a strong situation: a recipe for a taut, tense, smart movie. And for a while The Negotiator is just that, with a genuinely puzzling mystery built in (if Roman isn't the killer, who is?). But Hollywood doesn't trust talk, particularly in summer. So eventually the running around and explosions commence. As usual, the main things lost in the hubbub...
...hero, played by Steven Williams, is a black Republican who owns a bar in a rundown but gentrifying neighborhood of Washington. His regular customers include a natty lobbyist, a prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor, life, energy. Weighed down by the tone of dead-serious satire, the jokes on Linc's usually land with a thud...
Which is it now -- the cool, smart Microsoft or the arrogant, petulant one? We'll find out Monday, when the software giant will seek a summary judgment to have all charges against it dismissed, and will request its trial be delayed until such a judgment is considered. Following a hearing today, the company said that evidence uncovered in discovery will rebut each of the five key points the DOJ and the states must prove to make their case...
...BRAINIAC An ambitious scientist is bent on world domination, but Superman--who is smart but not too smart--stops...