Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ELECTRONIC ART. MacPaint, which works on the Apple Macintosh, seems to have opened up a new artistic world on personal computers. Using only the Mac's palm-size mouse controller, the program gave chartmakers and would-be Picassos easy access to a variety of artist's tools, from an electronic paintbrush with variable-size brushstrokes to a computer paint can that pours out an infinite variety of patterns and shades. There is now a quiverful of MacPaint imitations that run on other machines, including Apple's MousePaint ($100) and Broderbund's DazzleDraw ($50) for the Apple II, Mouse Systems...
...ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from the cushion, meeting the palm frond at an angle subtended by the arc of the broken wheel...
Second, in the political struggle over the funds, nearly every city got a piece. A compromise formula based on population, tax base and per capita income led to a thin, scattershot dispersal of money. The recipients included not only down-at-the-heels municipalities but also gilded places like Palm Springs, Calif., Vail, Colo., and Greenwich, Conn. Critics point out that 25% of grants in 1983 went to cities in the ten wealthiest states...
...world. Few people know that the island lies just off South Carolina. Most of the natives would like it to stay that way. Package tourism may be growing steadily as a key industry on the island, but the social climate there stubbornly clings to its Nantucket and Palm Springs roots...
...diplomat husband. I'd visit Poland, East Germany . . . India. I wouldn't work ! and I'd eat like a queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano and sing all day long. We'd buy a Scottish...