Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that you ought not fret? Take it in stride, as I do the junk discarded onto me. I will endure and outlast it. You, too, will continue onward, past burdens of the present and even those of the future. They are not pleasant, of course. But neither is your sewage, which is part of my existence...
From 1985 onward, Case nurtured Quantum from a few thousand members to more than 100,000. Along the way he refined his ideas about how computers should communicate and what his audience needed. In 1991 Quantum--what a geeky name--became America Online and, with 150,000 members, prepared to battle CompuServe, which had 800,000 members, and Prodigy, an IBM-Sears joint venture with 1.1 million...
...good hour into the movie, you suddenly realize that people are creeping from one closed space to the next, from the Christmastime police beatings in prison cells onward. Into such a world populated by officers who would just as soon as bury a broken bottle in your neck as arrest you, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) enters, a fresh-scrubbed "golden boy" with an absolute commitment to good. Exley is a little uncomfortable with the corner-cutting approach of the police chief Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), who dispenses tips on life with a thin smile that promises something violently wrong...
...recognize him as a statesman of the sea, a heroic explorer, a voice for the ocean. Some will smile, recalling his great charm, lilting French accent, red cap, irrepressible sense of wonder, passion for discovery and talent as a consummate communicator. He touched our minds and hearts, luring us onward--and downward. While celebrating a life well lived, I personally mourn the loss of a trusted friend. Surely the sea does...
...Onward: From the career front, KELLIE PETROVA writes that after 22 years of preparing audits for Peat Marwick, she made the jump to Bits 'n' Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained is more like it! Kellie recently divorced third husband DEREK CHAPIN after their adopted son Jason, 17, sued to learn the identity of his birth parents so he could see if he was a legacy at a decent college. Incredibly, Jason's real parents turned out to be none other...