Word: datebooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possessed as I wandered the streets of midtown Manhattan questing after the appointment book that best reflected my station in life. I was briefly tempted by a Filofax until I remembered that all I needed was a datebook, not a new religion. And the Weight Watchers calendar just did not seem right for inscribing lunch engagements...
...discovered that the 1989 black vinyl Daily Planner had been marked down to $5.06. Suddenly, just as Gail Sheehy promised, I at last understood my precise position in the Great Chain of Being. As soon as I got back to my office, I eagerly scrawled in my new datebook my sole New Year's resolution for 1989: "Memorize that table of metric equivalents...
...tells his parents he wants "nothing" for Christmas and seems to mean it. Indifference may be Clay's most endearing virtue. He sleeps with Griffin (male) and Blair (female); whoever asks first gets him. When one of his sisters gives him an expensive leatherbound datebook, he knows at once he will not use it: "I tried to keep a datebook one summer, but it didn't work out. I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook." Still...
People prone to forget their spouse's birthday can stay out of trouble with the $19.95 Laser Days datebook, which is custom-designed to remind them of as many as 20 important occasions. Marketed by Cleveland's Initial Concepts, the computer-printed calendar displays the customer's name on each page and gives a one-month advance notice of upcoming events...
...year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness and Health datebook provides recipes and exercise tips that focus on a different part of the body each month (October is thin-thighs month). Some 235,000 copies have been shipped to stores...