Word: altos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vautin says that Harvard has used the situations in Palo Alto and New Haven to modify its techniques for properly storing and disposing of hazardous waste...
Until this month Andreessen lived in a rented two-bedroom house in Palo Alto with his girlfriend Elizabeth Horn, who sells commercial real estate. He gets to the office around 10 a.m. and rushes home at 5 p.m. to walk their bulldog. Until about 3 each morning, Andreessen answers E-mail, reviews the status of products and, as corporate vice president of technology, helps plan Netscape's next moves (he doesn't write code anymore). "Marc hasn't changed," says Horn. "He still buys 20 or more CDs of classical music at a time when we go to Tower Records...
...NeXT's offices in Redwood City, California, Jobs is slightly more subdued than the hyperenergetic--and, some would say, megalomaniacal--pitchman of old. "You have to work differently once you have a family," he says. (He lives with his wife and three children in a large house in Palo Alto.) "When I was in my 20s, I literally would work 18-hour days, seven days a week. You do that with a family, and you won't have a family for very long...
...Live Bird" is both rich and dense, condensing in the short space of an hour the history, career, and demise of legendary alto-saxophonist Charlie Parker, who died at 35, wasted by drugs and alcohol. Robinson portrays Parker in the late stages of alcoholism, playing a final gig for desperately needed money. As Robinson mimes interaction with a bartender, a young interviewer, friends, and past-acquaintances at the bar, we learn the sad facts of Parker's short life: his estrangement from wife and child, his destitution in the wake of his fellow musicians' celebrity and success, and his inability...
...first year after he joined the band, he met an alto sax player whose experience Natchez uses to illuminate the distinction he sees between jazz...