Word: leprechaun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the '70s, his pictures rose steadily in price. Bluff and leprechaun-like, Adams became a peripatetic public figure. Artistically, his popularity reflected the fact that his classic 19th century style possessed more than a trace of romanticism. "People look at my pictures," he said a few years ago, "and then accept them, in a sense, as reality." But it was the heightened reality of a photographer who made nature seem like Nature. "You don't take a photograph, you make it," he once said. Adams made himself into a photographer and then made others see the world...
Within a few years, the wizards at Bell Labs built the first fully transistorized (or solid-state) computer, a machine called Leprechaun. But by then Ma Bell, eager to avoid the wrath of the Justice Department's trustbusters, had sold licenses for only $25,000 to anyone who wanted to make transistors, and the scramble was on to profit from them. William Shockley, one of the transistor's three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young...
Goes to Dinner and regular contributions to CBS's 60 Minutes, the leprechaun with the deadpan delivery has regaled audiences with the details of his middle-class conformity. His collected TV essays, the bestselling A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, disclosed his suspicions about designer underwear, his shock that no Mrs. Smith exists at Mrs. Smith's Pies, and his habit of saving warranties for appliances long since discarded. What accounts for the popularity of such ordinary views? Rooney thinks it is his compliance: "Rebels are a dime a dozen," he writes...
Anyone's mind, that is, except that of the Harvard hockey leprechaun and a goaltender by the name of Wade...
...sours into fatal righteousness; from Debbie Allen as Walker's doomed love; from Ted Ross and Moses Gunn as two eloquent veterans of injustice who try talking sense and restraint to Coalhouse; and from James Cagney, back on-screen after a 20-year lapse and cool as a leprechaun sphinx in the role of a wily New York City police commissioner. Only Elizabeth McGovern seems out of tune and time. She plays Evelyn Nesbit as the daffily dumb prototype for every bombshell from Marilyn to Bo-cheeks puffed, eyes glazed, tripping through life in a sweet stupor. She weighs...