Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the microprocessor, a single chip could be programmed to do any number of tasks, from running a watch to steering a spacecraft. It could also serve as the soul of a new machine: the personal computer. By 1975 the first of the new breed of computers had appeared, a hobbyist machine called the Altair 8800 (cost: $395 in kit form, $621 assembled). The Altair soon vanished from the marketplace. But already there were other young and imaginative tinkerers out in Silicon Valley getting ready to produce personal computers, including one bearing an odd symbol: an apple with a bite...
...wolf, his aide a fat little pig in glasses) come strutting off. That night at Rick's they chorus Die Wacht am Rhein, the stein-swinging bully song that is the Nazis' idea of a good time in a nightclub. The defiantly answering Marseillaise stirs the soul and raises its Pavlovian goose bumps for the 15th time. They still pronounce "exit visa" weirdly: "exit...
...disparate elements that the film makers are trying to stick together for 48 Hrs. are a tough white cop with the soul of a beer barrel (Nick Nolte) and a jivey black con with the spirit of a peacock (Eddie Murphy of Saturday Night Live.) The former springs the latter from prison believing he can help trace a psychopathic former associate who has become a cop killer. There ensues a long, often well-staged but improbable chase through San Francisco. The sequence is enlivened by some reasonably well-written dialogue, as if Director Hill had revived The Odd Couple...
...most pressed for time could make the trip in an hour and 45 minutes in 14-seater, heated planes that flew daily from Boston to New York. Even Santa "pastured his reindeer and ordered a monoplane for his deliveries," according to Rollo airlines. They claimed that the merry old soul had "gone modern." A raccoon coat could provide an extra layer of warmth on those journeys...
Last minute shopping at Filene's could be relaxing in 1935. The department store offered the services of personal shoppers who, provided with your gift list, money, and mail instructions, would "never give up on their search for the perfect present for the trusting soul." Or, if you preferred to shop in New York, an elegant room at the Plaza Hotel cost five dollars a night and offset the drudgery of last minute shopping. Standing out in many shop windows would be the new semi-portable Electrola radio...