Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their nifty buttons and sex appeal, handheld organizers have always seemed cooler in concept than in reality--too clunky and complicated to replace pen and paper. Then U.S. Robotics introduced its Pilot, the first palmtop to cram addresses and a daily calendar into a simple, 5-oz. electronic tablet. With a penlike stylus, users can jot down notes on the screen and transfer them to a desktop PC program like Lotus Organizer. ($249; Palm Computing...
...facts I had quoted. In short, he succeeded in verifying that I had a working phone number. The ridiculous facts I had checked were included, but my praise for the importance of my job--the entire second half of the article--had been cut! With the stroke of a pen, I had been transformed from a cheerful, hardworking intern to a bitter, sarcastic employee. And people around the nation had read it, and had taken it for the truth...
...hospital after birth, and another saw children by the side of the road in New Jersey and said out loud, "There's a tax cut. There's another. $500." On the day Dole invoked the "Brooklyn Dodgers," Clinton went to the Grand Canyon--and with the stroke of a pen made it bigger. Clinton toured nursery schools, talked about putting the Internet in the classroom. Dole visited graveyards, and talked about estate taxes. When he dispatched top aide Scott Reed to Dallas last week to ask Ross Perot to quit the race and endorse him, Perot could sit back, savor...
...maybe the problem goes deeper than our smug habit of attributing crime to individual character flaws. What we seem to be forgetting--both those of us who want to be 10 again and those who want to lock up 10-year-olds in the pen--is that childhood is not just a triumph of miniaturization. Kids really are different, which is what seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff's death last April should have taught us. And the line dividing the kids from the grownups is at least as serious and consequential as that other life-cycle boundary we fuss...
...Wilkin's essay makes it clear that Gorey has the right to judge other artists, because he is a master artist himself. Wilkin offers a thorough explanation of the depth of Gorey's artistry, emphasizing "a sense of the artist's ferocious concentration on each stroke of the pen." Her homage is utterly convincing: every Gorey picture draws upon a rich background of visual references, ranging from Japanese prints to surrealist painters. Wilkin correctly argues that "Gorey's dialogue with other art, like his dialogue with literary traditions, is simply evidence of his wide-ranging knowledge and sophisticated grasp...