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...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...confronted over the years in her incessant Hoovering of famous figures. After Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley panned Kelley's biography of Elizabeth Taylor in 1981, he received a gilded Gucci box wrapped with gold ribbon. "Inside," says Yardley, "was a bag of fish heads and a postcard of Liz Taylor giving me the finger." The card was signed, "From the friends of Kitty Kelley...
...think there's anything that we were dying to do that we didn't get around to...We actually had something called "Bambo," for a minute, which was: they killed his mother and now it's time to get even. And we made a little postcard that we gave away at a book convention in Las Vegas. But the Disney lawyers got a hold of the postcard and suggested that this book might have a very fast injunction on it if we included "Bambo," so that project kind of went away...
...goal is to create a tool as simple as a pencil or a postcard but with the power of a computer behind it. If the product succeeds, the company could open up a vast new market for those millions of factory workers, sales representatives, inventory clerks, construction supervisors, police officers, claims adjusters and other mobile workers who might benefit from computerization but who either have never learned to type or just do not have the time to sit at a keyboard. Says Richard Shaffer, editor of the Technologic Computer Letter: "This is one of the most exciting opportunities that...
...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...