Word: darning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about people who aren't so blessed as to work for the best darn company in the world? Laptops constitute the fastest-growing sector of the computer market, and last year Big Blue undertook the most extensive consumer-research campaign in ThinkPad's six-year history to try to figure out who's buying them. It discovered a new class of information worker: mobile folks who buy their own gear. These consumers work at small start-ups. They're college students. They're even people who like to telecommute, but from the sofa rather than the home office. Some...
...nicely-incorporated backup vocals. Those who might be tired of "Iris" will welcome its mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy Up the Girl, however, is just how darn upbeat it is. Most songs move to quick-paced rhythms and, at the chorus, slide up scales for an almost uplifting effect. The music, in fact, tends to belie the plaintiveness of the lyrics. How the Goo Dolls write something so dolorous as, "See the young man sitting/In...
...succeed in bringing much of its power out rather beautifully. It looks as if the Hyperion's experiment was successful: they brought one of the most difficult and rewarding plays in history to a large student audience, and they succeeded in demonstrating that Sanders really is (except for those darn acoustics) suitable for Shakespeare. If the production, as Norton wrote of the actor who played Hamlet in '56 (the amusingly named Colgate Salsbury '57), had certain marked defects, it also "manage[d] to do certain difficult things remarkably well." Like staging Hamlet in Sanders, for the masses, in the first...
...could just forget about donating anything to anyone before I get my own career off the ground. But then some suppressed page from that darn "Life's Little Instruction Book" begins to pop back to life, sweetly reminding me: "Now, if everybody thought that way, where would you be? Probably out of a lot of financial aid, young lady." And if my kindergarten teacher-esque conscience doesn't force my checkbook open, I'm sure that peer pressure will...
Selecting an extracurricular at Harvard is like choosing a porn magazine at a newsstand: They all look pretty darn good...