Word: texts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancient waters. At another he intones, "You can't find oil if you are not honest; I'm not sure I know how to explain this." The rueful part, after the semicolon, redeems the rest. He natters on about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when he invited her to a park to share a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, then showed up with the ingredients % and a portable microwave oven...
...enough, he says. "We're up against the giants trying to hold our own." Stacks of Do the Right Thing T shirts were poised ready for distribution before the film opened. A journal chronicling the making of the film, which Lee writes for each production as a text for aspiring filmmakers, is published simultaneously with the movie's release. Although he doesn't particularly enjoy acting, Lee says, he stars in his pictures because he knows it will draw moviegoers. Even his appearance in ads for Barneys and the Gap clothing stores has helped attract a mainstream following, though...
...Kessler, the National Security Agency did indeed find Soviet bugs in the code room in August 1987. The KGB had replaced key circuit boards in the printers; it had also replaced the power line to the communications center. The reprogrammed circuit boards sent an uncoded copy of the text of all State Department and CIA message traffic to the new power line, which could carry it out of the embassy and into the hands...
...companies currently account for only 10% of the world's production of the most advanced DRAM chip, the one megabit, which has enough memory to contain the equivalent of 100 pages of double-spaced text. The new venture, called U.S. Memories, plans to manufacture the next generation: the four- megabit chip. Last week IBM disclosed that it is already producing the more powerful semiconductor for use in its own computers and other products. That may give IBM a lead of several months over its Japanese rivals, who have yet to gear up mass production of the four-megabit semiconductor...
...emotional dissent, Justice Rehnquist included the text of The Star- Spangled Banner. Its words tell the story of the flag's survival amid British bombs bursting over Fort McHenry -- an image of a banner resilient in the face of flame. Similarly, as long as the freedom for which it stands is resolutely respected, the flag is certain to survive the flames of all the Joey Johnsons who would wish otherwise. "And it is this resilience," proclaimed Justice Brennan, "that we re-reassert today...