Word: stirring
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...thanks to their periodic breaks away from the terminal to satisfy nicotine cravings. And what goes on outside the office can be just as damaging as what happens in it. Observes Katy Keller, a physical therapist at the Miller Institute: "Injured people go home and talk on the telephone, stir the supper and carry the baby all at the same time. All this does is add to the physical stress of the workday...
Sculley hopes that Kaleida will overcome the problem. In late July, at an industry conference that Apple sponsored at Hakone, a mountain resort near Tokyo, he announced that starting next year his company will build CD-ROM players into most of its computers at cost to stir consumer interest. Says Chuck Goto, general manager of S.G. Warburg Securities in Tokyo: "The new technology is ready, but so far, no one has shown the imagination to figure out a product consumers want. Apple is trying to build the critical mass." If the company succeeds, it will be blazing an impressive trail...
Perhaps the poignancy of these images derives from our sense that we are looking into a world now almost entirely lost. Perhaps it derives as well from the memories they stir of movie glories past, when sweeping historical spectacle was a cinematic commonplace. Then again, it may simply be the crazy nerve of this project that disarms one's critical faculties: the French and Indian Wars; a protagonist named Hawkeye; a red-coated English army marching in straight stupid lines through the forest; wily Indian enemies skittering through the underbrush, a menace not only to the soldiery but to virtuous...
Mokele Mbembe could hardly create more of a stir than we do in this previously undisturbed land. Gorillas stare and scream at us, and sometimes charge, but almost never run away. Colobus and cercopithecus monkeys crane their necks to eye us from high tree branches. Gloriously fat wild pigs, elsewhere the favorite game of hunters, look up from their rooting and peer at us calmly through the low brush for several minutes before moving off toward new forage...
...this battered ear, the stuff sounds like music. The highlight is the mesmeric thumper After All These Years, Ringo's anthem to "traveling the world in a rock 'n' roll band. It's in my blood! It's in my blood!" Ours too. This is retro-rock to stir any '60s survivor. Rise from your wheelchairs, Beatlemaniacs, and shout, "Yeah, yeah, yeah...