Word: windowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Madison, Wis., for shoplifting. On Friday morning Dann delivered poisoned food to several homes and college fraternities. She then set fire to a house where she had worked as a baby- sitter, temporarily trapping her former employer and two children in the basement (they escaped by smashing a window). Dann drove six blocks to the school; she may have been searching for her employer's other two children, who were away on field trips. Left behind in the bloody school bathroom after the rampage was Dann's .357 Magnum, for which she had a permit. Asked Winnetka Police Chief Herbert...
...three models, the Olympus SuperZoom makes what are perhaps the most impressive technological leaps. To keep its weight and cost down, the camera uses a separate viewing window rather than the so-called single-lens reflex design adopted by Yashica and Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer sees matches what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot...
...most of the Lovatt children conform to society, but Ben's malevolent presence forces them out of the house to live with relatives. David and Harriet are left with only their youngest children--Ben and the sensitive Paul. Ben becomes a force for revolution within the home, and a window on the discontent around it. His rebellion causes Harriet to neglect Paul, whose quiet grace infuriates Ben. Lessing's parable of class conflict demonstrates that in a society which is determined not to accept deviance, everyone suffers...
...fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...
...filching money from the wallets of his divorced parents. In eleventh grade, he flunked all his classes but still continued his trips to Venice. "It was scary all the time now," Eric recalls. "I would sit in the van needing a hit, but couldn't stop looking out the window for the police or a shadow...