Word: tubefuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back from the war, Tom Jr. saw IBM afresh and quickly realized that its future lay in computers, not a 19th century information technology like tabulators. Even the first primitive vacuum-tube machines could calculate 10 times as fast as IBM's tabulators. Many people, however, including Watson's father, couldn't believe the company's core products were headed for extinction. Nonetheless, Tom Jr., who became IBM president in 1952, never retreated. He recruited electronics experts and brought in luminaries like computer pioneer John von Neumann to teach the company's engineers and scientists. By 1963, IBM had grabbed...
...olds, just two glasses of alcohol impairs the ability to learn significantly more than in adults just a few years older. Another new report suggests what causes some kids to start drinking: television. Perhaps because of the way drinking is portrayed on TV, kids who are glued to the tube--especially to music videos--are substantially more likely to become teenage drinkers...
...throw away your crusty tube of black and white Halloween face make-up just yet. Save it for the KISS reunion tour, a.k.a. the "Psycho Circus World Tour" coming to the Fleet Center tonight. You can "rock and roll all night" with your favorite 70s freakazoids of black leather garb. 7:30 p.m., Fleet Center (North Station T-stop), 931-2000. Tickets...
...aren't already experiencing sensory overload from the hoards of Princess Di Barbie Dolls and made for TV movies soon to invade your tube with thrice-regurgitated versions of the Paris accident...no? ...really?...then you might be one of the millions planning to pay homage at "Dresses for Humanity: An Exhibition of the Dresses of Diana, Princess of Wales." The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Mass is the lucky host of Di's famous garments which are projected to generate $100 million in donations for various chartities spanning the globe. The exhibit runs through Jan. 1st. Tickets...
...colorful personalities that she encounters. After a lazy dialogue between the author and Bartoli, we meet Bartoli's doctor, who speaks "with the enthusiasm of someone who had just glimpsed the Zabar's deli counter for the first time," while looking at Bartoli's oscillating vocal folds through a tube while singing a high F. The introduction of each new personality takes the author on tangents that lead farther and farther from Bartoli. Yet, this was probably exactly what Bartoli wanted. By allowing Hoelterhoff access to the backstage of the opera world, Bartoli had the right to read everything...