Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Praised athletically for: Speed and power Speed and power Swiveling hips...
...Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
Wait a minute. Why should the most successful filmmaker in history subject himself to these dicta, jotted down in half an hour by a couple of daffy Danes? Why would any director toss away the tools of power and sorcery that the movies have spent a century developing? No 150-person crew, no wide screen, no post-synchronizing of dialogue, no flashbacks, no E.T. or dinosaurs. No tripod for the camera. And no director's credit...
...begun shipping the Merlin, which works on most PC laptops, to retail stores. The company says that at $279, it is the cheapest wireless modem around (I haven't found a cheaper one--others tend to cost $400 and up). Another plus: the Merlin draws roughly one tenth the power of a typical laptop modem. That's good news for road warriors and anyone else trying to conserve their laptop's battery...
...paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, the only son and youngest child of Arthur Hays and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger. Punch's training and apparent aptitude were so slight that his father and the board of directors were reluctant to make him publisher and seriously considered having him share power with an arrogant and ineffective executive from the business side of the paper, or, more improbably, with Washington bureau chief James B. ("Scotty") Reston...