Word: button
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punching 22 digits (twice as many as the usual eleven) on a push-button phone, customers are connected with a computer that routes their calls along MCI's microwave relay system...
Deneuve, more beautiful than ever, displays a knowing humanity, and a sensuality she rarely shows in film, where she has been used more as icon than actress. When she and Depardieu finally acknowledge their passion for each other, there is a sheer eroticism-without so much as a button being unbuttoned-that one finds in few movie love scenes...
...love affair with the machine depersonalizes, withers sensitivity, blunts intellectuality, wipes out artistic impulse, destroys populations in push-button war, exhausts resources, maximizes cruelty, and perverts us into insensate robots! Henry Ratliff...
...Computer Crime Data, estimates that 99 out of 100 electronic swindles go totally undetected. In most cases security procedures are lax, or clever crooks have learned how to beat the system without leaving a trail. Says FBI Agent Paul Nolan: "In many instances, the criminal can punch just one button, which tells the computer to forget everything. Once that's done, the evidence is destroyed...
Though as written the role is little more than a smiling Abra cadaver, Allen brings strength and warmth to her task; also, she is as cute as a button on a calico dress...