Word: triumphant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cast ahead to July, Walter Mondale is triumphant. The Democratic presidential nominee has rolled effortlessly to victory on the first ballot in San Francisco as most everyone in the political industry has predicted, as almost anyone who could hear and read has come to expect...
Perhaps cats are finally getting the recognition they deserve, and Cats is their tribute, a triumphant rendering of fantasy into fantastic entertainment, and maybe elucidation. Given the attention that the show has received, it would be easy to overanticipate and find Cats disappointing. But don't go expecting anything more than an evening of imagination and fun, and you will be rewarded with nothing less. This is entertainment at its best, and not even ailurophobes--that's cat haters--should miss...
Mersenne's number had three basic factors: 178230287214063289511 and 61676882198695257501367 and 12070396178249893039969681. Says Simmons: "You can't help feeling triumphant after solving a problem that has been around more than three centuries." Some may not share in the jubilation, especially if they are dependent on a widely used cryptographic system thought to be uncrackable. Known as RSA (the initials of its three inventors), it employs difficult-to-factor multidigit numbers to encode secrets and keep them secure. These include electronic funds transfers and military messages. By factoring the numbers, the codes can be broken. When RSA was first...
...place, their significance so finely chiseled, that one almost hears the click of the craftsman's tool. As a result, the energies of Spencer's narrative remain muted, her conclusion equivocal. Even Lex, from whom violence might have been expected (he once pointed a pistol at a triumphant Arnie on campus), drifts off in a paralysis of frustration and despair. The final chapters echo with questions like those Arnie addresses to the Buddha...
...have become more cautious in recent years. Says Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "When the Soviets' nuclear power was puny, in the mid-'50s, they were boasting and bluffing that war would mean the end of capitalism, and socialism would emerge triumphant. Since then, on several occasions, the Soviets have conceded that the results of nuclear war are incalculable and most likely cataclysmic...