Word: smalltalk
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...Smalltalk about classes, house life, and concentration suffers a prolonged death...
...expectations are completely satisfied by the screen adaptation. The film opens in a small fishing village of Japan, in which young Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) is sold to a geisha house in the city. There she begins her training in the arts of being a geisha—grace, dancing, smalltalk, pouring tea—while trying to survive the cruel jealousy of the head geisha, Hatsumomo (Li) and the harsh atmosphere of the geisha house. Under the tutelage of Hatsumomo’s rival Mameha (Yeoh), Chiyo grows up to become the stunning and celebrated geisha known as Sayuri (Zhang...
...ancestry to Vannevar Bush (a White House science adviser who was dreaming about electronic desktops in 1945), Douglas Engelbart (who invented windows and the mouse) and Alan Kay's team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room and walked out with something more valuable than Federal Reserve notes or gold bullion: a working...
...clear, however, that Apple significantly improved on Xerox's work. In Smalltalk, for example, all commands are executed through pop-up menus. On the Mac, users can reach right into cyberspace and manipulate documents directly, grabbing a file with a mouse, dragging it across the screen and dropping it into a folder or trash can. Much of the genius of the Mac -- its look and feel -- is in the accumulation of such details: the pinstripes across the top of a window; the gray tint in the scroll bar; the way an icon zooms to fill the screen when...
...college question was popped on me many a time during the summer, which I spent in Israel, working, studying and touring-- and engaging in smalltalk with scores of American college students. One of my conversations involved a fellow named Fred, though my talk with Fred was almost identical to those I had with Jennifer, Chris, Michael or Maria...