Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychologist Tom Cottle puts his talk-show guests on the couch...
...several programs at once, just as an office worker can spread several jobs across a single desktop. Creating and editing files, running printers and other peripheral devices, and juggling long lists of numbers can all be done without consulting a manual or remembering a single computer command. Explains John Couch, Apple's vice president in charge of the Lisa project: "What we wanted to do was to emulate the way an individual works in an office...
...Apple, the Lisa project began to build. First there were rambling late-night rap sessions between Jobs and Couch, then the installation of a 40-man team in quarters behind the Good Earth health-food restaurant in Cupertino, Calif, and finally, in 1982, the establishment of a 400-man force in three one-story beige and red-tile buildings near Apple's antiseptic headquarters in Cupertino. Couch fired up the workers with what he calls the "Outward Bound school of business," stressing the virtues of originality and sweat. New workers were employed as pristine users, and psychologists tested...
...MIAMI HAS BEEN GRIPPED AGAIN by racial violence," announced the big T.V. Newsface. So much for winter vacation. I sprawled on the couch and waited for the reports to trickle in between soap opera commercials. The real-life script turned out to be even worse than "All My Children...
...Farmer's life was real; her tragedy was that she never got to play it onscreen. From the moment she hit Hollywood in 1935, barely 22 and with a natural blond beauty, Farmer determined to play by her own rules. She would adorn no mogul's casting couch, coddle no gossip columnist. She deserted Hollywood after her first hit movie (Come and Get It, 1936) to join the Group Theater in New York City as the star of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. Life struck back at Frances with gaudy vengefulness. Odets and his group dumped...