Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't they? In Gordon's view, "what keeps computers from being truly productive is that these damn human beings keep getting in the way." Many jobs cannot be fully automated: "Planes will always need two pilots and trucks a driver." Computers cannot replace beauticians, gardeners or restaurant chefs. Moreover, there is the law of diminishing returns: the latest PCs do not represent as great an advance over earlier computers as the first did over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal...
...President Clinton's sexual transgressions and attempts to keep them private. Adultery and deceit go hand in hand. What does trouble me about Clinton's lies is that when he shook his finger at me and said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," he was so damn convincing. Nixon's Oval Office offenses and subsequent prevarications were a thousandfold more reprehensible, but I could always take comfort in his transparency. Slick Willie snookered most of us. MARTIN BLINDER San Anselmo, Calif...
...crying out loud, show off. your talent to some real people. Tonight is open mic night at the posh "Back Room" at Cafe Soho's. You can sign up on the way in for an opportunity to stun the world with your musical talent. Or, if you're too damn shy, skip the sign-up sheet and recede into the dark cozy booths to eat some French fries and listen to braver souls share their tunes. 8 p.m., 11 Springfield St in Cambridge. 354-1040. Cover charge...
...whoever else is obsessed with this mess. Speaking on behalf of outside-the-Beltway persons: We didn't need to know about the President's sex life, we didn't want to know about the President's sex life, and the President's sex life is none of our damn business. Thank you very much...
...will take some time for the long-ball Luddites to accept that these are the good old days--the days of damn Yankees, of pitching phenoms like El Duque and Kerry Wood, of a glorious Griffey, surely of the mad bombers McGwire and Sosa. We may have to wait 20 years--when, say, Matt McGwire, now 11 and a weekend bat boy for his father's team, threatens to hit 100 homers in a season--for reality to set in. Then the geezers will sigh and say, "Ahhhh, remember the glory...