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...wooden bench in the park outside Peet’s Coffee. As we passed around a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, we began to cross and uncross our legs in unison. Passersby eyed us curiously as we crossed and uncrossed with theatrical flourish and we saw the hint of potential in their stares...
...such numbers make other analysts salivate, because they hint that the embattled tech sector may finally be coming out of the doldrums. "Semiconductors are the feed for the rest of the technology industry, at least for hardware," says Steve Cullen, director of semiconductor research at In-Stat/MDR, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based technology research group. Indeed, some tech heavyweights are coming out of the closet to say that the worst is over. Executives of Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, demonstrated guarded optimism about a tech rebound. "The thing we are really waiting for is an enterprise commitment to upgrade...
...describe the tone of the Rock Hudson--Doris Day comedy Pillow Talk? That film and its myriad spawn populated the screen with horny men in need of domesticating and bouncy career gals who wore chastity belts beneath their Jean Louis frocks. At a time when Hollywood could still only hint at promiscuity, these movies sublimated their animal urges in the classic farce techniques of innuendo and mistaken identity. If their winks were as subtle as the drop of an anvil, and if their nudges could break a rib, they nonetheless kept America smiling, or smirking, until the sexual revolution exploded...
Gross, unphased by the tumult of his office, listens attentively to his fellow professor, ushers the film crew through the narrow doorway, takes a phone call, prints his schedule and finishes his blueberry yogurt without a hint of stress or panic...
...hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile...