Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon to tell whether laptops will become classroom fixtures (like calculators) or fads (whatever happened to Trapper Keepers?). But the legions of the faithful are growing. At Mott Hall, many of the sixth-graders have adoringly given their computers nicknames. Jose Ramirez, shy and bespectacled, struggled to fit in with his classmates before the arrival of laptops. Since then he's become something of a sage. On this afternoon, he's floating among the different groups in the classroom, peering at the work on their screens, shooting down technical troubles. "It's more fun for me now with my classmates...
Franklin: I like the camaraderie of the people. It's a real community. I met [Detroit Pistons basketball star] Grant Hill once. I was outside the locker room after a game. I told someone to tell him Janet Jackson was outside...
Franklin: I was ripped off here and there when I was younger... So I told Lauryn nobody is going to tell you anything in the recording industry. So you have to investigate a lot, you have to surround yourself with good people, managers, agents and such who have your best interests in mind. I also thought her generation should give our generation a big party--annually--because we put out so much information for them and they are capitalizing...
...games between the fierce enemies introduced fans to a style of fluency and electrifying intensity that put many an NHL game to shame, as well as to such new words as "underwomanned." Though body checking is not allowed in women's hockey, it would have been hard to tell that to any of the bodies flying across the ice, while Maple Leafs clashed with Stars and Stripes all around the packed arena...
Giles De'Ath (John Hurt), a reclusive English novelist, has had so little contact with the late 20th century that he can't tell a microwave from a VCR. One day, by mistake, he watches a trashy teenpic called Hotpants College 2 and finds, he thinks, a reason for loving. In an actor named Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley), Giles sees all the beauty of the ages in one glorious package. The donnish writer buys fan mags, rents B-minus films, immerses himself in the detritus of Bostockiana. To your eyes Ronnie might seem a bland dreamboat, but that is part...