Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writes. No, he does not write about Cortés and Montezuma in every story; in fact, he is not writing about them in the sketch quoted above. There is in fact no subject matter to his pieces. Characters and situations are used the way a hypnotist employs a pocket watch swinging at the end of a chain. It is the hypnosis that is important, not the swing of the watch. A short piece called The Party begins, "I went to a party and corrected a pronunciation. The man whose voice I had adjusted fell back into the kitchen...
Japan's Sony Corp. has stunned the world with an array of products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...
...this is mere preliminary to the season's main event, the Sept. 30 publication of The Hotel New Hampshire (E.P. Button; $15.50), Irving's fifth novel. Though the first edition numbers 175,000 copies, Button has already ordered a second printing of 100,000. Pocket Books, which sold more than 3 million paperback Garps, has paid $2.3 million for reprint rights to Hotel...
...opponent's next move. Says Irving: "I have a $100 bet with Colin that I'll beat him on my 40th birthday, which is only 20 days away from his 17th. But he is already beating me. He's got the money in his pocket unless I catch...
...mainly a performance for the people," remarked Jiri Liska, an economics student from Prague who came to London with a friend and a sleeping bag and camped out along the processional route. "Do you think they realize that each firework that goes up is money out of their pocket?" They must realize it; the press, after all, has been keeping a running tab on the celebration for weeks. The point is, no one especially cares: not about the cost of the wedding-eve fireworks in Hyde Park ($16,000); nor the wedding cake (maybe $6,000); nor the entire jamboree...