Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S. Missouri, "Mighty Mo," was returning from retirement. In emotional ceremonies on a sun-drenched day in San Francisco Bay, the ship was "brought alive" by her crew of 1,600 before an audience of 12,000 dignitaries and guests. The mere mention of the ship summons echoes from the remembered past. On her bleached teak decks, Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur had accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese from Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu...
...Sun made its first public stock offering in March, raising $45 million. When investors eagerly snapped up the stock at $16 a share, the founders, who retain shares worth about $62 million, became overnight millionaires. But they have little time to savor their new wealth. Says McNealy: "We run a nervous operation. We're constantly looking over our shoulder to see who's gaining...
...threat is mighty IBM, which has just entered the workstation market with its model RT. To stay ahead of other manufacturers, Sun is boldly aiming to double the speed of its workstations every year...
...letters, sketches and two novels, Islands in the Stream and now The Garden of Eden, a kinky love triangle about a promising young writer and two women on the leading edge of fashion and sexual mechanics. The setting is the coast of southern France during the mid-1920s. The sun is strong, the water clean, the food good and true. Best of all, the hotel Grau du Roi is a fine place to be a writer named David Bourne, honeymooning and working on a story of a youth and his father tracking a killer elephant in the African bush...
Despite some tender pillow talk and David's willingness to follow Catherine to the hairdresser, The Garden of Eden is not the work of a secret quiche eater. Catherine's urges do not come naturally to David. His women are part of the external world, like the baking Mediterranean sun and the bracing sea. As always in Hemingway, those externals are observed with a meticulous objectivity that conveys loneliness. There are also many self-conscious passages on the writer's solitary struggle. For example: "It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better...