Word: inks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imagine my disappointment. I had found the new 'It' pen: the Rebecca Moss Sport Pen. She gushed with ink as liberally as my trusty fine-tipped Pilot Precise V7 Rolling Ball, but Rebecca offered me something new-an upgrade in styling, heft and refillability. She had everything I wanted. The pen came packaged in a space-age pod container with sound-proofing foam to cradle the instrument. Inside: a pen with an elegant, athletic look. A masterpiece of German engineering, the pen's blue plastic housing had a smooth sandpaper tactility. I thought I had found love at first write...
...tone of Knowles' letter was predominantly upbeat. With the $965 million goal for FAS' portion of the University's five-year Capital Campaign more than 90 percent met, Knowles spent less ink on the dire financial straits of FAS than in past years...
...here, swallowing her coals. Charming nymphs and satyrs, Psyche and Cupid, and Juno and Bacchus are portrayed next to angels, the Virgin, and Adam and Eve. But there are also some peasants, shepherds, portraits of anonymous females and beautiful studies of hands and nudes. With a little chalk and ink, the artists examined everything from the silly to the sacred...
Europe hasn't reached this point quickly. Last January, when the Lewinsky story broke, I was at home in London for semester break. The European media amused itself then with voyeuristic people-watching. It devoted more ink and more air time to ridiculing the naive and puritanical fascination of Americans with the President's dalliance than with the details of what he did. After all, European leaders have been doing much the same thing for centuries...
...Here's another color for you: Red, as in ink, which is what Apple had been spilling in the years before interim CEO/messiah Steve Jobs returned to the orchard. Now he has a bumper crop: Apple announced it has sold more than 800,000 iMacs in the computer's first five months. The company will now turn a profit for the 5th straight quarter, and the stock price, which was languishing at around $12 a share when Jobs came back, closed at a robust 43 Tuesday. Healthy enough so that the next color might very well be pink...