Word: tinkered
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Picture a toddler playing with Legos or Tinker Toys. Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...
...locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...
Jeanine, 64, was one of the 350-member task force that saw to the creation of the memorial and one of the 11-member committee that selected the architects, the Butzer Design Partnership. She and her husband, both recently retired, worked at nearby Tinker Air Force Base. Karen was the youngest of their five daughters, all born within six years. Jeanine stops at Karen's chair. "Everybody loved her. She was a cheerleader in school, an honor student. She was an aerobics instructor during lunch breaks. Bubbly, full of energy, a real sweetheart...
...screen swirls with zippy images: a cocktail tumbler that mysteriously waddles on an airplane meal tray, a Tinker Bell electron that darts through our hero's thoughts, a vortex of digital effects that suck you into cyberworld, and a few Fellini moments, like the tunnel full of empty cars and the ghostly accordionist on a picturesquely creepy streetscape...
...haven't gone in and said, 'Is the money going where we want it to go?' No one has ever looked at it that way. We just tinker around the edges," says newly-elected committee member Nancy G. Walser...