Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contents of my closet haven't changed much in the last four years. I still own a wide assortment of plaid button-down shirts, and I still wear them on a regular basis...
...free for lunch on Wednesday? Hawkins would haul out the block and tap on it as if he were checking his schedule. If he needed a phone number, he would pretend to look it up on the wood. Occasionally he would try out different design faces with various button configurations, using paper printouts glued to the block...
Hawkins figured his main competition was paper, not computers. So he made sure that looking up the day's schedule was no more difficult than opening a Filofax: one push of a button and there it was. Details about an appointment could be called up with two taps. "The way you look at your day on the Palm is the way you look at your watch," says Dubinsky. "That's the sort of performance we felt we needed...
College presents so many possible paths to cross off, so many choices to disregard...when it's all in the service of some distant ambition, diamond-hard or ill-defined, one loses track of where one travels from day-to-day. We're instructed to button the change down under our shirts, force it to work for us. But who is this us we want it to work for, and where are we going with it? The expectation of a life without any unseen dramatic change is unrealistic and even damaging. Read through the bios of the Class...
...prop for the farce, of course, was an overrated bum named Sonny Liston. Somehow he had persuaded quite a few people that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year...