Word: coolerator
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With the miniaturization of modules, computer units that once filled a room now fit into cabinets no bigger than a water cooler. This saves materials and floor space, but a much more important advantage is increased speed of operation. When a computer is working, a blizzard of brief electric pulses swirls through its innards. The transistors and other components react almost instantly, but the pulses cannot travel between them faster than the speed of light, which is about ten inches in one billionth of a second. If they must cover any considerable distance, they slow the computer down. System/360...
...vodka in one night. It hardly helps that minor Polish officials wink at the nation's drunks. When a man checked in at a Poznan sobering-up station for the 40th time not long ago, the $250 debt that he owed the state for previous nights in the cooler was wiped off the books to honor his record performance...
Miles Davis had come on with his "impressionist" jazz style?a rubato blowing in spurts and swoons, free of any vibrato, cooler than ice. The Modern Jazz Quartet was playing a kind of introverted 17th century jazz behind inscrutable faces, and Dave Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) introduced polished sound that came with the complete approval of Darius Milhaud. Suddenly jazz?one of the loveliest and loneliest of sounds, the creation of sad and sensitive men?was awash with rondos and fugues. The hipsters began dressing like graduate students...
...around a vaulter's pole. His forceful, lavender-colored Mother and Child casts the swaying shadow of a madonna into a posture of freedom. In keeping with the size of his studio, the paintings are small; their message is that the great talent, having been put in the cooler, is frozen...
...Cooler heads prevailed...