Word: instantness
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...summer wear, thrown off immediately in the rescue at the World Trade Center, the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93 (who took their murderers to their death and probably saved the White House), the rapid national acceptance of the need for a difficult new world war. In an instant, the yellow ribbons--emblems of America held hostage, of plea bargaining with evil--gave way to star-spangled flags...
...doing the music for the Broadway show "Annie Get Your Gun," Berlin went off for a weekend and returned with five songs - "Anything You Can Do," "The Girl That I Marry," "My Defenses Are Down," "Doin' What Comes Naturally" and "I Got the Sun in the Morning" - all instant standards...
...Berlin's ability to generate new hits had long since been sapped. Indeed, after Astaire's run of mid-30s hits, Berlin's only chart-toppers were instant nostalgia items, some actual oldies (Les Brown's 1949 version of the 1937 "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"), some that only seemed that way ("White Christmas"). "Annie Get Your Gin" spawned three top-10 songs but no #1's. His last charter was another secular spiritual, "Count Your Blessings" - #5 for Eddie Fisher...
...Puttin? on the Ritz," 1930. This instant standard, with one of Berlin's most intricately syncopated choruses, is associated with Fred Astaire, who danced to it in the 1946 "Blue Skies." But Astaire was the third star to sing it on film. First was Harry Richman, who had a #1 hit when he premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster...
...hospitalized for 10 days in 1998, he and fellow patients suffered "isolation, boredom, confusion and anxiety." So O'Neil, 30, founded Get Well Network, based in Washington, to make hospital TV screens interactive. At the click of a remote, patients can surf the Web, access e-mail and instant messaging, and play music or video games. Or they can just watch TV: the network offers pay-per-view movies and more than 40 TV channels. "Since we implemented it, we've noticed improvement in patient satisfaction," says Les Donahue, CEO of Williamsburg Community Hospital in Williamsburg, Va., which uses...