Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems so obvious now that it's amazing no one thought of it sooner: a computer that keeps track of thousands of phone numbers, addresses and calendar appointments, a to-do list and memos, yet is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. When Palm Computing first introduced its tiny Pilot two years ago, the gizmo did all that and more--and hit the jackpot. Sales zoomed to a million, and everyone from Al Gore to Robin Williams was packing one. At $299, the device was cheap (for a computer), hip and elegant. But the real secret...
...glad to see you are still batting 1.000 regarding any information concerning me. As usual your information stinks. I need a house and a nightclub in Palm Beach like you need a tumor. FRANK SINATRA Beverly Hills, Calif...
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...
...room on the computer a lot," he explains. Form follows function in this abode. "I sit at my desk and the bookshelf is just an arms-length away." An admitted gadget hound, Price has a miniature communications center at his desk. A Motorola mobile phone abuts the Palm Pilot linked to his laptop. Next to the laptop: Price's PC. "I like to keep my files mobile, yet at the same time have the power of a desktop. I can download information between my laptop and palm pilot to have it instantly accessible...
Such social graces were inherited. At Lewinsky's 23rd birthday party at the Palm, an expensive restaurant in Washington, her mother and her aunt Debra Finerman, Lewis' partner in the short-lived gossipist career, invited six women who seemed to know the celebrator only casually. "I think everyone at the table was surprised they'd been invited," says a friend. Lewinsky's mother tried to make everyone comfortable, but it was awkward. "I remember how affirming her mother was," says the friend, "to the point that she couldn't possibly have meant what she said, because everything was 'This...