Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the workplace, because while visually impaired people can follow a movie, a big percentage of them can't find a job. "I don't get too surprised by anything," says Wonder of the inventions, "but we did see some good things." One of the products is a mouse pad that helps people feel what is going on on the screen. Wonder is amazed by how few manufacturers think of the visually impaired when making appliances. "It's weird. It's so simple to add voice capability," he says. "And it means complete independence for a blind person." In between...
...they insisted on shooting on film, rather than doing it live and recording on kinescope. CBS balked at the extra cost; the couple agreed to take a salary cut in return for full ownership of the program. It was a shrewd business decision: I Love Lucy was the launching pad for Desilu Productions, which (with other shows, like Our Miss Brooks and The Untouchables) became one of TV's most successful independent producers, before Paramount bought...
...have a clear vision of Bill beneath thestage in between acts in his dress sitting in hischair with a yellow legal pad on his kneescribbling his thesis," Adams says...
...going to be a detective. I pulled my grandfather's old hats out of the closet and borrowed a cigar from a friend's father. Standing in front of the mirror, I'd practice saying "Sho, shweethaht" in my best Bogie voice. I carried a pen and pad everywhere and made notes on suspicious individuals (including my eighth-grade science teacher); I bought clothes based on whether you could conceal a gun in them...
TIME reported: "Word appeared in the columns that Sinatra was about to buy a Palm Beach pad and a nightclub, too, so he could wage war with an established nightclub owner who had refused to offer Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance...