Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could tell at once that something was terribly wrong with our home PC. My wife, who is usually so brilliant and unflappable, was suddenly flapped. "Mr. Computer, he doesn't look so good," she sobbed. She took a seat in the corner, hugging herself and rocking. The poor woman depends on the machine for her work and tends to take its periodic meltdowns hard. The children skittered nearby, cheerfully harassing Otto Quittner, our new puppy, ignoring the crisis in their midst. They knew Daddy would...
...disingenuous for rich and famous moviemakers to tell us how awful it is to be rich and famous on television. As it happens, the moral of EDtv is of less import than its tone--which seems loosey-goosey but is carefully land-mined with gags--and its characters, who are unremarkable but worth getting to know. Shari, for instance, is a woman at profound discomfort in her bountiful body. Ray treats Shari as a gaudy accessory, and she accepts his evaluation. Elfman paints a nice portrait of a woman fighting for esteem. (Psst: she gets it from...
Next time, tell us how a woman's brain works. RICHARD R. HOFSTETTER Plainfield...
...based Time Domain Corp., and featured at a 1990 Los Alamos meeting attended by McEwan and his Livermore associates. In response to a Time Domain challenge, the U.S. Patent Office has initially rejected Livermore's key patents. Next month the House Science Committee will release a report that, sources tell TIME, will cite more cases of intellectual-property infringement committed by the weapons-making labs as they scrambled to find new raisons d'etre in the post-cold...
...look at most history books, they'll tell you ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first true all-purpose electronic computer. Unveiled in 1946 in a blaze of publicity, it was a monstrous 30-ton machine, as big as two semis and filled with enough vacuum tubes (19,000), switches (6,000) and blinking lights to require an army of attendants. Capable of adding 5,000 numbers in a second, a then unheard of feat, it could compute the trajectory of an artillery shell well before it landed (compared with days of labored hand calculations...