Word: thumbnails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miraculous as it may be, the tiny silicon "chip" that is at the heart of today's electronics revolution has certain drawbacks. Crammed with thousands of individual circuits and components, this computer-on-a-chip is only about a quarter the size of a thumbnail. Yet despite the minuscule dimensions of these circuits, the time required for electric current to traverse them places a limit on how speedily the little computer can make its calculations...
...live within a traditional framework that has been imposed on them and that they have accepted, even though they know it is false and unhealthy." He does not qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make their bitterness understandable with even a thumbnail sketch of the age-old conflict between Irish Catholics and British Protestants. The book's narrative begins in August 1976 with the founding of the Peace People movement, but Deutsch gives only passing, superficial treatment to the history of bloodshed and tragedy...
Coach Joe Restic provides the following thumbnail diagnosis of Colgate's woes to date: "They run the same type offense as last year but they just don't have the same type people. The thing that has plagued them more than anything else is turnovers...
...museum," he declared. "Besides, any recognition I got was attributable to my troops, who did a magnificent job." And Lady Bird Johnson did not want to talk about her por trait at all. She graciously steered conversations to the exhibit as a whole: "It's a glittering thumbnail sketch of the last 25 years...
...fatalistic humor and discuss a program of his films tonight at 8 p.m., at Center Screen, in the Carpenter Center. The program will include "The Candy Machine," "The Club," "Rapid Transit," "Trik Film One," "Trik Film III," "L'age Door," "Viewmaster," "Hand Collations," "Step Print," "Block Print" and "Thumbnail Sketches...