Word: cools
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...only hit yet in the parade of APS cameras. Canon discovered that many Elph buyers didn't even know, or care, that their new camera was an APS model, which is about as smooth a technology transfer as you can hope for. Elph just looks real cool, and it fits into a shirt pocket. "The design had much more impact than APS," admits Ted Ando, general manager of Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s camera division. Cameramakers have got the message, and a slew of Elph-licates are headed for store shelves...
Part of the drama is in the antidrama, the visual geniality of Seahaven. It's a Disneyland dream of cheer and rectitude. The film's light is soothing, beckoning--a near life experience. Its cool glow is so infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show...
Answering those questions is clearly a job for Father Lorenzo Quart, ace trouble-shooter at the Vatican's cloak-and-dagger Institute of External Affairs. Although lacking Agent 007's license to kill, Quart is distinctly Bondish: tall, cool, impeccably clad and cursed with dreamboat looks that fluster women into worrying if their lipstick is on straight...
Russia's Central Bank tripled interest rates today to a surreal 150 percent. The desperate bid to cool a market meltdown was accompanied by a shift in speculation as to how Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko plans to save the economy: "The word yesterday was 'devaluation'; the word today is 'bailout,'" says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. And that may leave Russia's fate in the hands of Newt Gingrich and his congressional followers...
Until not so long ago, Sinatra's notion of cool was deader than an imploded casino in Vegas. Bourbon on the rocks and snap-brim hats were your parents'--no, worse, your grandparents'--idea of hip, stuff that looked quaint beside the bug-eyed alienation of the 1960s. Hippies wore blissed-out smiles and ponchos. Sinatra wore cuff links, roughly $30,000 worth in the mid-1950s, when that kind of money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder...