Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...robot seven years ago that could see and hear and carry out spoken instructions, but, says Ichiro Kato, chairman of the graduate school of science and engineering, "it had the mentality of a child 1½ years old." Kato's lab is now building a more advanced model. Says Kato: "It will probably have the mentality of a five-year...
With a stultifyingly middle class background and warped by the usual subtle psychological complications, Bundy appeared to be the dream-model for many good American families' plans for their sons. He was good-looking and charming, a stylish Boy Scout grown to adulthood. He was a promising psychology and law student, a bright light in the future of the Washington state Republican Party, and a sensitive psychiatric social worker. Yet he was also possessed by what he called his "little problem," which rode him even as his career in politics began to accelerate. Occasionally it would drive him to cruise...
...hottest cars in the U.S. these days is neither a Japanese import nor one of Detroit's new front-wheel drives. It is the Ford Mustang of the early breed: the slim, economical and sporty little models built between 1964 and 1968. Suddenly they are more sought after than any other classic. An early model in only fair shape sells for $6,000 to $8,000. Low-mileage convertibles in top condition have fetched as much as $18,000. In California, old Mustangs rank near the top on police lists of most-stolen cars...
...hunkers down on the floor and spreads her denim-clad legs wider than a 21-in. television screen, the teen-age temptress murmurs huskily, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Then Photographer Richard Avedon's lens zooms in to linger on Actress-Model Brooke Shields' taut jeans...
...editor once omitted one of my foot notes," he recalls. "It explained that a certain type of gun - a scraper - was only made in a test model. I got thousands of letters from frontier buffs and gun people." L'Amour's factual asides have been treated with greater respect ever since...