Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universities. The term hacker derives from "hack," meaning a subtle, sometimes elegant fix for a flaw in a computer program. Hackers spend hours typing commands on terminal keyboards to learn as much as possible about the strengths and weaknesses of a particular program or network. They tinker for the sheer fun of it, delving deeper and deeper into the mysteries of software...
Mickey Mouse is there to greet visitors. Also on hand are Minnie, Tinker Bell, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Donald Duck and Dumbo. So are Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and other lures for the 32 million Japanese who live within a 30-mile radius, as well as for tourists from all over...
...Board does take responsibility through its Subcommittee on General Academic Rules to tinker at the margins, so to speak, of the curriculum. In addition, the Board can bring to the attention of others, usually the Associate Dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education, problems it observes, such as implementing the new Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, so that any necessary adjustments can be made. Further, members of the Board are, of course, often asked to express their opinion on various proposed policies under discussion is other groups. But by and large, the Board tries to stay out of the business of making...
...George Smiley exists in a similar limbo. Says the author: "We are simply not on terms at the moment. He's hung up his boots." One of the problems, paradoxically, between Le Carre and his character is the television exposure that Smiley received in adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People: "I loved Alec Guinness's performance, but he gave Smiley a very definite character, and it was in this form that the public thought of him, and, inevitably, he was not my chap any more." Still, the author, 51, adds an escape clause...
...Tinker has thought a lot about programming," notes Paul Klein, the curmudgeonly sage who was an NBC vice president before joining the Playboy Cable Network. "He's very good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there...