Word: hopscotch
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...device dubbed Step Mail is an electronic hopscotch-like floor pad by which users who have their hands full with other tasks at their desks can control their email with their feet. As an audience of assistants, members of the research team and star-struck employees watched, Gates, clad in a maroon crew neck sweater and khaki colored trousers, tried out the gizmo. Standing on the dance pad, he stomped on the down arrow and watched the cursor move down the list. His right loafer hopped on the right arrow until it moved up to the delete function marked...
...tend to think of the company as a family, they often take the time to nurture and train inexperienced employees. The B's can save companies from disastrous oversights and unethical corner cutting, since their ties to the firm tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt was that good, solid employees--like whistle-blower Sherron Watkins--were shunted aside in the gold rush. "B players strive for advancement but not at all costs. This...
...century, it was snubbed by Oscar, many critics complain, because of its violence. Set in Rio's notorious Cidade de Deus favela and narrated by a teen who manages to sidestep the ubiquitous criminal life there, it chronicles the slum's two-decade conquest by young narco-hoodlums. Its hopscotch storyline is as full of surprises as it is void of heroes, leading some to call it a Brazilian Goodfellas; but Meirelles and Lund have choreographed something more than a stylized gangsters' ball. "Last year 68 boys were killed in Cidade de Deus alone," says Meirelles...
...occult number. Readers of Alan Moore's recent work, most notably "From Hell," have gotten used to his fascination with the connections between physics and metaphysics. For this journey Promethea follows the Kabbalah, AKA "The Tree of Life," a Hebrew glyph of ten interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding to a part of our solar system, an aspect of divinity, and a card in the tarot deck. As Promethea travels to each realm she learns more and more about the nature...
Perhaps. But Dreams' cloying earnestness makes jadedness look attractive. If you weren't convinced kids were different in 1963, we see the spun-sugar Meg actually skip across a hopscotch grid on the way home to watch Bandstand. The historical references are clumsy: a son arguing with his father declares, "Kennedy says it's time for new dreams and new frontiers!" Speaking of J.F.K., the pilot begins on a snowy day in November, setting up the hackneyed loss-of-innocence climax so obviously that you half expect a TV to crackle, "And in other news, President Kennedy will be assassinated...