Word: socket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dreamed up Two Bad Ants (1988), in which the adventures of a pair of the insects -- being buffeted inside a garbage disposal and nearly getting cooked in a toaster -- are seen from the angle of the creatures themselves. "If I were an ant looking out from an electrical socket," Van Allsburg explains, "the long slits in which the light poured in would look like 15-ft. doorways hung in space." And so they...
...hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live lizard she found in her oven, and deliver a package of hot-dog buns for one of her family picnics. "We charged $20 to deliver 59 cents worth of hot-dog buns," says Rogers, "but she had them there, and that's what these people expect...
CEBus systems use a house's existing wiring to control appliances. For example, a homeowner might plug a CEBus-compatible microwave oven into a wall socket in the kitchen. Then he or she could set the oven temperature and its start and stop time by using a CEBus controller. That could be a telephone linked to the house's electrical system, a home computer plugged into a wall socket or a remote hand-held controller that beams infrared rays to an outlet. Last week Bell Atlantic announced plans to test a new system that uses standard phones to control...
...wiring system that would supply not only AC power but also telephone, audio, video and high-speed data signals to every electrical outlet in the house. The wiring would enable homeowners to plug anything from a telephone to a waffle iron into one of the new outlets, and the socket would determine whether to deliver a dial tone or 120 volts...
...poem Beowulf, which English teacher Daniels has tried to bring to life with a recording in Old English. But the school's tape recorder has an ill-fitting plug, and Daniels cannot get it to start. After several attempts, she asks a visitor to hold the plug in the socket. "This is one of the worst things about teaching in the city," she says. "Nothing ever works...