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...years back, in fact, notebook computers were hardly pleasant travel companions. Heavy and pricey, these 6-to-8-lb. bricks were a nuisance. With the advent of the 3-lb., $2,000 "ultraportables," like Sony's Vaio 505 and Toshiba's Portege 3010CT, comes new "executive cachet," says analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies. He expects this category to account for 20% of all notebook sales over the next few years. The new "Jupiter class" notebooks that run on the Windows CE operating system are just as svelte but cost a mere $1,000. They can run only limited "pocket...
Read about a new album from Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello and you can picture the record executives having a field day: the swinging songsmith meets the aging king of punk! Austin Powers plus Sid Vicious! Sex appeal and intellectual cachet! It must be a senseless gimmick just dying for a shot of arch hipness, you can practically assume. Another dud for the remainders bin. Fortunately for us, though, these songwriters have in fact crafted an album that is subtle, passionate and captivating. Pieced together by Bacharach and Costello during spare moments together in hotel suites on rented pianos...
...that Eleanor first met Governor Clinton of Arkansas, who was helping the doomed Democratic candidate in any way he could. They struck up a friendship that, Mondale says, lasts to this day. Meantime, her work situation was still pretty dismal -- although the Mondale name now had added cachet, helping land her guest spots in "Dynasty" and "Three's Company." In the former, she played a TV anchor woman; in the latter, a medical intern who inspects John Ritter's rear...
...ratcheted up its image a few major notches. In its previous incarnation at 798 Main Street (now home of Salts Restaurant), Anago Bistro was a hidden gem--intimate, understated, and consistently excellent. Alas, popularity corrupts. With the move toward self-iconization and the strategic new location, Anago's former cachet has been exploited. The larger, hipper Anago is struggling to adapt to its new image...
...Already the vocabulary of popular culture has been immeasurably enlarged. In the fuddy-duddy New York Times, it has become acceptable to see oral sex on the front page--the words, I mean. Barroom rakes can be grateful for half a dozen new pickup lines, each with presidential cachet. "You make my knees knock." "I like your curves"--or, alternatively, "I like the way the hair falls down your back." And when all else fails: "Kiss it." Lawyers of the future will know to reach at once for the trademark wordplay of Robert Bennett, growling at plaintiffs, "This is tabloid...