Word: texts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he is known as a self-absorbed dictator, Giuliani would be only an average blowhard in the Capitol, so I find him more charming than his press clippings. He speaks without a text, makes his own calls, never goes off the record. We stop for lunch, and he puts a $20 bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike...
...kindergarten coordination exercises I had suffered through in 1984, served no purpose for the task at hand. Sure, my xeroxing was more than satisfactory, what with a summer of interning under my belt, but my fine motor skills were surprisingly rusty. During that first show, as I jerked the text back and forth through the camera, the rippling host became increasingly agitated, and gave me a firm scolding while the set crew and production team waited for Take 13. The speech repeated itself in a abridged version during Show 2, and in an even shorter shorter version during Show...
...Winona Ryder confronts the face of evil in Lost Souls. In End of Days, Arnold Schwarzenegger must stop Satan (Gabriel Byrne) from taking a human bride. Johnny Depp stars in three upscale creepies: as a space traveler in The Astronaut's Wife, as a bookseller searching for an accursed text in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate and as Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Late this month Samuel L. Jackson will chase, or run like hell from, a pack of very smart sharks in Deep Blue...
...First, what exactly is electronic paper? Just what you'd think it is: A piece of paper that can not only display any text or image, but, like a computer monitor, rewrite that text or image as often and as many times as desired. Imagine a newspaper that automatically updates itself with fresh news and stock quotes and sports scores, in real time. Or a single textbook that becomes a math book in math class, a chemistry book in chemistry, and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in English. Or a billboard that advertises a new sale every day. MORE...
...Successful Author: Brian Baird (D., Wash.) got at least $15,000 in royalties for The Internship Practicum and Field Placement Handbook, a text on clinical internships...