Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something akin to genius and then lapsed back into a barely disguised form of commercial art. His sense of timing, his grip on how to give an image graphic clout, and his fixation on style as an end in itself all came out of his years of advertising and display work during the '50s for I. Miller, Lord & Taylor, Glamour and Vogue. By the end of this period he was rich, professionally famous and yearning for recognition as a serious artist...
...cellmate shared the tiny space, but that was not always a good * thing. "Once they put in a tough young man who said he was convicted of spying for China," Begun said. "He threatened me and then beat me up." Begun pulled up a leg of his trousers to display a scar left from the beating. The guards, he said, ruled it a fight and punished both...
...alumni seem to display somewhat more enthusiam for recruiting athletes than they do for recruiting introverted geeks (who after all appear to be the only identifiable group to vociferate sullenly towards the mental capacity or treatment of Harvard athletes when they are given a podium), we might conclude that alumni have more admiration for--and take greater pride in Harvard's athletes than they do in Harvard's introverted "strictly academic students...
...after little more than a year of exposure, a less complicated and ! cheaper kind of computer gadgetry is starting to carve a niche in the word- processing market. Known as personal writers, the novel instruments look much like their personal-computer rivals, complete with keyboard and video- display monitors. Like personal computers, the new products are powered by semiconductor chips and use floppy disks that can store up to 140 pages of text. The difference is that the new machines cannot do such high-tech jobs as number-crunching calculation and communication with other computers. Instead, the personal writers perform...
...models currently on sale are equipped with built-in programming to spare customers the trouble of learning how to use separate commercial word- processing software. The operating instructions are minimal: with a few simple commands, sentences and paragraphs can be switched around or type styles changed on the display screens...