Word: aptness
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...postmodern building that houses AT&T's microelectronics division is obscured from view by the thick forests of suburban New Jersey, and to some it once seemed an apt metaphor: for much of the 1980s, the unit was really lost in the woods. It was expected to lead AT&T's charge into the computer business, but its microchips sold poorly because they were overpriced, and the company's first commercial computers -- from PCs to a midsize system -- were flops. With losses topping $3 billion, AT&T was forced to pull back from the market. Says William Warwick, president...
Since 1970, Hughes has filled our magazine's pages with vigorous commentary written at a high intellectual pitch. Yet he never fails to make his subjects appealing and accessible -- with humor, apt social context and, more than occasionally, a rude remark...
...saintly queen and Joe Mantello as his unhinged lover are endlessly watchable, nakedly real. Alas, David Marshall Grant and Marcia Gay Harden are ciphers as the Mormons, he as stolid as wood and she vibrating like Jell-O; neither offers insight into the pain that mainstream audiences are most apt to understand...
...Lynn Redgrave recalls as a characteristic family photograph, her father Michael and sister Vanessa posed exquisitely in front while the workaday members of the family -- Lynn, her brother Corin and mother Rachel Kempson -- stood demurely behind. She doesn't come out and say so, but the grouping was painfully apt. While acting seems to be a genetic imperative for the clan (five generations have worked in the business), only Michael and Vanessa have been touched by the magical ability to make transcendence look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud...
...world Tommy portrays is bygone. People don't drop acid much anymore; electronic-video gamesters have crowded out pinball wizards; a baby conceived, like the title character, at the start of World War II is officially a pre- boomer and apt to be a grandparent today. So despite its billing as "new," Tommy becomes that oddest of entities, a period rock musical -- playing to a nonperiod audience. Unimaginably to kids who boogied in the aisles at concert versions way back when, the Broadway crowd cheers while sitting sedately, and there isn't a whiff of controlled substances in the house...