Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then aids in the cover-up. In the summer's hot title Exclusive, the President of the United States murders the baby his girlfriend refused to abort. In the film Escape from L.A., the Chief Executive orders the assassination of his own daughter, while in the movie version of Primary Colors, John Travolta is slated to play the lyin', cheatin' and stealin' First Stud. By today's standards of popular culture, Richard Nixon was a saint. Jail to the Chief...
...weekend and next at the Loeb Experimental Theater, highlight through acute satire the numbed, mediated culture in which students live today. The first, called "Small World Order," is written by Douglas B. Rand '98 with music by Adam J. Levitin '98. The place is Disneyworld. The ride is a version of company history, only the company has overwhelmed the country. New England, for example, is fondly known as "Puritan Land" and Texas goes by "Lone Star Land." The world is high on the opiate of Celebration, and perception is sugar-coated and mouse-eared. Information is doled out by such...
...Squires told a different version to the commission investigator...
HomeLink's interface is primitive, harkening back to old MS-DOS terminal programs. Menus are accessed by the keypad on your computer, with little mouse support and no graphics. But BankBoston promises a new, graphically-oriented version later this year. And you can even transfer data between the popular Quicken package and your account...
Vickrey, 82, designed a novel auction method in which bids are sealed and the winner pays what the second-highest bidder offered; a version of this is used by the U.S. Treasury to sell notes. Vickrey also urged railways and utilities to prevent congestion by charging peak rates at the busiest times of day, a practice that has now become routine...