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...Apple) into a fully functioning appointment calendar and phone directory -- a Filofax on a monitor. Yuppie nirvana! But wait. Lots of software can do similar stunts. Portex actually prints out addresses and lunch dates on supplied paper that fits snugly into a Filofax diary or any standard loose-leaf organizer. A word-processing program is included for aspiring PC Pepyses, but the real fun of Portex is savoring the illusion of a well-ordered life. After all, neatness counts. (Available at $69.95 to $169.95 from Eurosoft International, Asheville...
Master artists first sketched in the design, then supervised a group of apprentices who meticulously handcolored in the page with brilliant colors and gold leaf. This care, this comprehensive approach, accounts for the striking vividness of the pieces...
There is not a made-up leaf or an ornithologically unidentifiable bird in Church's South American paintings; though they were all done back in his New York studio; every hair on the tiny llamas looks right. Yet those who thought Church's paintings of Cotopaxi were faithful to the primal scene of nature were wrong. They were more than faithful; they were, so to speak, ecstatic. Nobody could call the view of Cotopaxi dull, but when Church saw it in 1853, it completely lacked the palms, writhing creepers, streams and waterfalls he would later give it. "The big mountain...
While sweater-clad students strolled to classes outside on the leaf-strewn Yard, more than 100 midshippersons in formal Navy blues gathered in Harvard Hall for orders and a weekly officers' address. The drill, usually held at MIT, was mandatory for ROTC members from Harvard, Wellesley College, MIT and Tufts University...
...sixth month of her pregnancy, "Nicole," 27, picked a set of parents for her baby out of a black loose-leaf binder. It was a thick album filled with letters and pictures of couples in search of a child. Jan and Dick Evans, like nearly everyone else in the book, posed smiling with their dog. "We want, in sum, to provide your child with all the benefits our own health, love and success can offer -- not to spoil, but to share," they wrote. Nicole liked that...