Word: timer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Back to the Future is not strictly a comedy, laughs are plenty and hearty. And while the film starts slowly--with a typically Spielbergesque beginning that pictures the mad doctor's vast home-timer system that does everything from turn on the radio to feed the dog--it moves quickly along and years pass like minutes...
Talk to any Harvard old-timer, and he'll tell you that in the good ol' days, eating out meant a choice between The Wursthaus and Elsie's. And if it was a drink you were after, you frequented Cronin's, the Square's faithful watering hole...
...Sure, there've been lots of town-gown battles," said one old timer, "but without Harvard, Cambridge would just be the gateway to Somerville...
...Brighton hotel when an I.R.A. bomb demolished four floors of the hotel and damaged the spot where she had been standing minutes before. Terrorism came of high-tech age that night; the explosives had apparently been planted under the floorboards weeks earlier and detonated by a microchip timer...
...antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have been preset weeks earlier...