Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...racing from one trendy locale to the next and then turning back to sneer at the place they just left. Some of it comes from the I-told-you-so quarter, composed largely of reactionary fogies who flaunt the fact that they don't know a modem from a mousetrap. "The modern world is not dying for want of more information," Russell Baker harrumphed in a New York Times column last month, assailing, among other things, the word cyberspace itself ("... if you were given a choice of places to spend a month, which name would you select-Tuscany or Cyberspace...
...Olympiad is a national competition in which teams across the country prepare for several "events," with such names as Mission Impossible, Trajectory and Mousetrap Racer...
...unisex barber shop-think of Steel Magnolias crossed with The Mousetrap-this interactive comedy is one of the best-kept successes in show business. In 1980 Shear Madness was capitalized at $60,000. Since then it has grossed $54 million while playing to 3.8 million people in 23,000 performances in the U.S. (St. Louis, Philadelphia and Austin as well as the cities mentioned above) and around the world (Montreal, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Budapest)-but never in New York City, the titular capital of live theater. Many audience members are repeaters, genial cultists; they come back bringing...
...time getting there -- and the reader has had a hell of a time too, swept along by the potent names, the glamorous and seedy settings, and Rorem's gift for the sometimes penetrating, some-times facile bon mot. (Debunking originality in art: "Anyone can build a better mousetrap, but it still snares the same old mice...
Virtual-reality hype is gradually giving way to virtual-reality reality. "Finally," says Ben Delaney, publisher of CyberEdge Journal, "the technology has met up with the demand. I think we're going to see VR all over the place. It's a better mousetrap, and it's a better way to work with computers." John Latta, president of 4th Wave, a market research firm, predicts that the nonmilitary VR industry, already a $110 million business, will be nearly five times as large...