Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adding the separate ottoman or footrest makes the chair blissfully relaxing. Adding the "task accessories" for reading and writing makes it a marvelously efficient work station. The lamp and a small round side table for a telephone, ashtray, vase, drink or whatnot are supported by a freestanding column. Another column supports a television set or computer monitor, as well as a cantilevered, tilting table that can hold a computer keyboard or serve as a writing surface. The columns can be placed anywhere. The computer disc drive goes in an upright console next to the chair. Diffrient maintains that "the energy...
Chebrikov: Well sir, last week in his syndicated column, which hundreds of papers around the country carry, he launched an attack on Derek Bok, the president of that bastion of capitalism, Harvard University...
When the Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles 52 years ago, TIME'S pre-Games coverage amounted to one column of miscellaneous notes and statistics. (Sample: the 69-member Brazilian team was so strapped for funds it had to sell bags of coffee to finance its stay.) We have come a long way since 1932. This week TIME marks the return of the Summer Games to the U.S. with one of the biggest editorial issues in its history. In addition to 15 pages of convention coverage, the magazine contains a 38-page Special Section, by far TIME...
City Scribe. "Once you're a habit, you've got it made," says San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen. By that measure, the Sackamenna Kid, a bowdlerized self-reference to his Sacramento origins, has it made in three-dot spades: Caen's column has appeared in San Francisco for all but three of the past 46 years, and its six-day-a-week mix of gossipy tidbits, hand-me-down gag lines and occasional nuggets of hard news, all separated by three-dot ellipses, is the closest thing to universal wisdom in the variegated Bay Area...
Instead he concentrates on the frilly, social side of a serious business. He starts with his recollections of kings, queens and other royals. Much of it reads like a gossip column, but some of the tidbits, which would never make it into a newspaper column, are often quite revealing of cultures and attitudes of the rich. He described, for instance, a feast given for the King of Saudi Arabia...