Word: lushly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knapp made Dole and Gingrich look like villains from a silent-picture show. They gave way to sun-dappled shots of the American President, steadfast and true. And so was born a key part of the 1996 message: attack spots that hid their harsh negative material inside a lush pro-Clinton wrapping...
...dominated the world of personal computing by providing the software that controlled the way users interacted with their machines--a program called an operating system. Microsoft's operating systems, first DOS in 1980 and then Windows 10 years later, had given the company intimidating control over PC software. And lush profits, enough to vault Gates to the top of the list of the richest Americans...
...software for the program is still in its infant stage in Redmond, TIME got a sneak preview. The new browser is fully integrated with the computer desktop. Users will turn on their computers and be presented not with an ungainly collection of files and folders but with a lush desktop that includes the latest news, instant access to content from across the Web, and a specialized version of the browser that looks at both local files and data from around the Web. Explorer 4.0, when it ships, will complete the unification of the computer and the Web. It will also...
...Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 306 pages; $27.50), David Hajdu suggests why someone with such talent would settle for such anonymity. Strayhorn was homosexual; in that era the only way he could live an openly gay life was to keep out of the public eye. Hajdu gives Strayhorn his belated due as a distinct musical voice and an engaging, if conflicted, personality. Strayhorn's taste and wit, his relentless drinking, his lovers, his activism in Harlem cultural life and the civil rights movement, his generosity--all are sensitively evoked. "He was just everything that...
...windows for the rest of the summer. The best tracks, however, are the midtempo songs, such as Let It Flow (which was also on the Waiting to Exhale sound track) and Why Should I Care. These numbers are poignant, melodic and lovely at points, but Braxton's lush contralto gives them substance and meaning. "The things I sing about, women can identify with," she says. "Although they're sad love songs, I always sound determined. I always try to portray it like everything's going to be O.K.; I'm still strong...