Word: seamlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. LAWRENCE PAYTON, 59, Motown master of harmony who sang with the indestructible Four Tops; of liver cancer; in Southfield, Mich. What began as a teenage gig for Payton in the 1950s became a lifelong commitment to seamless choreography and the precise vocals that typified such Tops hits as Baby I Need Your Loving and Reach Out, I'll Be There...
There is one serious drawback to this otherwise seamless production: the inclusion of the hell episode, which makes a better read than a dramatic scene. Not that the actors and director David Wheeler don't have a damn good try at making it work. The debaters deliver their arguments with conviction and fluency, and the director attempts to break up the essential monotony of a dialectic discussion through physical movement and some pleasant comic touches: Mendoza's four brigands become four devils, horns and all, who periodically cross the stage with admirably solemn expressions, replenishing drinks and once bearing...
...today's PCS networks can't match the analog crowd as a provider of seamless coast-to-coast calling because the new services are still fragmented and operate on three different technical standards. And you have to buy the digital phones, which a company like AT&T sells in the New York City area for $79 to $149, including a small pager-like window that displays messages. Basic analog phones, on the other hand, are frequently offered for little or nothing as incentives to sign...
...poor have always wondered how the rich live. But more to the point in America, the rich have always wondered too. Wealth on the scale of the 1880s in the U.S. was still uncharted territory. Its signs could get crossed. So the plutocrat needed an architect to create a seamless etiquette of shared ostentation, with variants, and that was what Hunt did with Newport...
...communitarian notion he still trumpets regularly. Blair nevertheless rarely speaks about his faith in public, refrains from ending speeches with "God bless you" and never attends high-profile prayer breakfasts with prominent religious figures. When asked by TIME if he is religious, Blair, who normally speaks in well-constructed, seamless paragraphs, became inarticulate: "I am, but I don't...you know...every time I talk about it...it's just...I don't want to...my, er, my religious convictions have nothing to do with why people should vote...