Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machines can be called user friendly, then students might be called computer chummy. They represent key potential customers, as do their kid brothers and sisters. They may use computers now; the majority of them will probably be doing so in five years, at school or at work. So the students sit, rapt, while Jobs spins out his visions. Just a few years ago, they might have been considered shock troops of the computer revolution getting a gung-ho speech from their guerrilla leader. Not today. Now they are the occupying forces listening to a victory address by the field marshal...
...Fritz Rollings not to seem as Southern as he is (Charleston, S.C.). More experts than just Scammon believe the world's longest political race may be won by the man who is best at poking fun at himself. "They've got to kid their own eagerness," says Humor Consultant Bob Orben, who wrote for Bob Hope and Jerry Ford. Already Orben is spinning jokes about Glenn "peaking too soon" now that Ted Kennedy has withdrawn. Orben's business is booming. Without money, people can only laugh or cry, and they prefer laughter. Anybody who runs for office...
...still the same old story. The Lisbon plane always descends like a kid's toy landing on the living-room rug. Stick-figure Nazis in animal faces (Strasser a wolf, his aide a fat little pig in glasses) come strutting off. That night at Rick's they chorus Die Wacht am Rhein, the stein-swinging bully song that is the Nazis' idea of a good time in a nightclub. The defiantly answering Marseillaise stirs the soul and raises its Pavlovian goose bumps for the 15th time. They still pronounce "exit visa" weirdly: "exit...
...Sometimes," says Bryant, "I wish they wouldn't keep records. You count the games because it's too hard to count the kids, the parents, the high school coaches, the preachers, everyone who has touched every kid. Multiply a whole lot of years by a whole lot of people and you've got 300-and-some victories, and all of the bowls couldn't hold all of the people who hold the record...
Choreography has taught Martins much more. "From the moment I began, I saw the company completely differently. I have special feelings about each and every kid, their capacities and limitations. In the rehearsal room, you know." Martins used to be a regular at performances of other dance troupes and at Broadway musicals. He is around much less nowadays, because it distracts from his listening time. "It means an evening, and that means five records. I look for music constantly-right now, Schubert. This is what I do instead of sleep. Sometimes I think it was easier when...