Word: instants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...account of his years at Clinton's side. While it is a good read--galloping through the 1992 campaign and Clinton's bumpy first term--it will be known as the latest example of disloyalty at the top, an attempt to cash in on trickle-down celebrity with an instant book...
...INSTANT GRATIFICATION Polaroid has finally caught up to the disposable camera crowd with its new Pop Shots. For $20 you get 10 instant color photos and a choice of indoor or outdoor settings (flash or no flash). Just snap the picture and pull the "rip cord" to eject. When you run out of film, you can slip the camera into the envelope provided (postage paid) and mail it back to Polaroid for recycling...
...year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole lot of it back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard back for his first lab handsomely with a $12.5 million (that...
...year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole lot of it back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard back for his first lab handsomely with a $12.5 million (that...
...remember the first time I saw Purell instant handwash. It was on the subway, and a woman who must have been a model removed a bottle from her purse. She raised it high and squirted a long stream down onto her cupped hands, which she rubbed together like she was starting some crazy, germ-killing fire. It was just like in the movies, except this movie was made by a neurotic Jewish guy like me. Like movies...