Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changing economics force many U.S. PC makers to re-evaluate the market. To compete in the future, say analysts, PC makers must bring unique products to market in order to stand out from the pack. As a result, many companies are placing big bets on such emerging technologies as pen-based computing, hand-held PCs and multimedia. Says John McCarthy, director of technology at Forrester Research: "If you're just a boxmaker, with nothing else to offer, your days may be numbered...
...cooking again? I'm really turning my house into a home...When the heat pours out of the oven and I baste the browning bird with all those good juices, it makes me never want to read another issue of Vanity Fair." Bernhard sounds both snotty and heartfelt; her pen drips in a sarcasm so intense it redeems these cliches, rendering them oddly evocative and always hilarious...
...minimalist plot is centered around Jeremy Acidophilus, a 29 year-old, marking time in a "veal-fattening pen" (a.k.a a tiny cubicle) at a publishing company where he is employed as a filer...
...computer when it rolls out its highly touted Personal Communicator 440. Part computer and part cellular telephone, the $3,000 machine -- based on AT&T's Hobbit chip for portable devices -- will let users send faxes and electronic mail by writing on the small display screen with a special pen. It will also transmit and store voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have a head start on several rivals expected later in the year, including Apple Computer...
...Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland. Its situation is delicious: two employees of the same cosmetics shop "meet" through an equivalent of a personals ad and write passionate letters without | any idea that they know -- and despise -- each other. In daily life they are dull and ordinary. Setting pen to paper, they are romantic dreamers. They stand for the poetic souls we all believe lie hidden within us. With the help of Joe Masteroff's witty book, Sheldon Harnick's playful lyrics and the winsome performances of Boyd Gaines and Judy Kuhn, they are also completely believable people doing fetchingly...