Word: platformization
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...like manga monsters to me." That initiation into the concept of rock 'n' roll as fantasy would be the germination of Oyamada's own career. (He acquired his musical pseudonym, Cornelius, from the name of a friendly simian in the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more Dionysian alter egos made his 1998 album Fantasma an international breakthrough...
...what Jobs sees as Apple's biggest advantage is also the barrier that will block the company from reaching its goal. There is a reason that the Windows/Intel PC is the standard in personal computers and that its makers control 95% of the personal-computer industry: the PC platform is open to all. Anyone can provide new hardware or software for it. Apple must stop being a control freak and open up to outside software and hardware developers. JACQUES DU PREEZ Pretoria...
That's precisely what the government wants. In elections last November, the Liberal party became the largest party in Parliament on a platform of clamping down on asylum seekers and immigrants living on welfare. The platform proved so popular that the Liberals became the first party since 1920 to overtake the Social Democrats in Parliament...
...almost a liability, especially in the political sense, to say you went to Harvard. Al Gore, of course, tried to hide that. But I think the case is there that those comments could make West unfit to have such a prestigious position, to have such a huge platform. He has to be responsible for that platform. We talked earlier about President Summers discussing with his faculty about how to deal with September 11th. The president realizes that the Harvard name that they so zealously try to protect from being used by the people carries a lot of weight with...
...when they say that and said, “Good for you.” Including many of my classmates who went to Harvard with me and graduated from here and they said, “Good for you. Thank God you’re using whatever little platform you have to say these kinds of things and raise these kinds of issues.” And if I’m getting that kind of thing, Cornel West must be getting it 150,000-fold, and I think that that is a responsibility—talk about responsibility?...