Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like Kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...
...deeper significance for the California-based company: with profit margins steadily shrinking in the personal-computer business, CEO John Sculley has set out to expand Apple's business into advanced consumer electronics like CD-ROM players and personal digital assistants (PDAs), far more powerful versions of the electronic pocket diaries developed by Japan's Casio and Sharp. Sculley believes Apple has a key advantage because it pioneered software that makes computers simple...
Being an editor of a newspaper in high school, I could possibly see the appeal of such a message as a filler for a slot otherwise left empty. However, that does not mean I would fill the blank pocket with such a hackneyed message as that of recycling benefits...
...folk singer to venture beyond the safety of her acoustic guitar. Her latest album, 99.9 F degrees, is a bold experiment in both verse and technology, with Vega's haunting images now pegged to electronic percussion and warped-sounding keyboards. Two of the more raucous songs, Rock in This Pocket and Fat Man and Dancing Girl, are even hot enough to hit the dance circuit. But unvarnished Vega fans need not fret: the album still sports tunes like Blood Sings, in which she breaks from technopop and delivers straight folk with Dylanesque force...
...have to find a capable center, and we haveto make sure Michael's protected. If he's forcedout of the pocket, he can't do the things he'sbest at," Restic said...