Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordered Microsoft to stop forcing PC makers to include its Explorer Web browser on Windows 95 machines, at least until Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG completes a study of the company's business practices as they relate to federal antitrust law. A Lessig conclusion that Microsoft's plan to knit Explorer into the upcoming Windows 98 system violates antitrust statutes could mean the biggest antitrust battle since the Feds broke up Ma Bell in the 1980s. The stakes? Just the future of Windows; which is to say the PC; which is to say the Net; which is to say human...
Getting ready to go back into the cold, Payanzo has trouble fitting Dylan's mop of unruly black hair into his blue knit hat. She and Dylan's father, Conrad T. Yazzie, frequently fight over whether his hair should be cut. Yazzie wants to braid it when it gets longer...
...play, the twins' employer Orson (Jerry Ruiz '00) doesn't realize that he's dealing with two different people when he hires them: he thinks they're both a boy named "Charlie." Because Cockburn and Gambuto sport such similar attire--black T-shirts, vinyl pants and Jacques Cousteau-type knit hats--and adopt the same earnest tone of voice, Orson's mistake is actually credible. Sebastian and Viola are equally unaware that they are both working for Orson: each presumes the other dead. "Charlie" acts as romantic go-between for Orson, carrying the latter's love-letters to the seductive...
...Wileys may look like tourists, but they are not. Emigres from urban America, they have come to rural southwestern Ohio to escape L.A.'s noise, traffic, crime, smog and cost of living--not to mention its cutthroat film industry--and reach for the kind of safe, close-knit way of life Jim recalls from his childhood in tiny Sharpsville, Pa. "Living in L.A., my vision became blurred and twisted," he says. "I was spoiled. I had secretaries doing everything for me. All I did was talk on the phone and sit in traffic...
Surprisingly, it wasn't until Bobbi entered the hospital that word of her remarkable pregnancy became public, though it had been an open secret in and around Carlisle for months. That may seem incredible for anyone who hasn't experienced the close-knit solidarity of a small Midwestern town. But while Bobbi's condition was discussed freely in Carlisle, the McCaugheys' neighbors quietly agreed that word shouldn't leak to outsiders. Says Kay Scholl, who runs Carlisle Foods with her husband: "Nobody asked us personally to keep it a secret, but it was known that this was the family...