Word: tap
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Young people put Barack Obama in the White House, and the President hasn't been shy about bringing them with him. So it wasn't a surprise that Obama - who entrusted 27-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau with crafting the soaring oratory that became his campaign's hallmark - would tap a relative neophyte to lead the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Joshua DuBois, the 26-year-old Pentecostal pastor who served as director of religious affairs for Obama's Presidential campaign, will oversee an office with a broader mission than it held under George...
...across all devices," says Lynch, touching the screen to launch an International Herald Tribune app. It looks identical to but somehow better than the paper version of that newspaper. It feels alive. "You can do anything you want with AIR. It's totally expressive," he says, with a gentle tap launching the Business section. Unlike a Web version, which needs a persistent connection and whose design is constrained by the parameters of the browser, the app fills the entire screen, immersing you in the reading experience. Once it's delivered, you can read it anywhere, even on a plane...
...with many works of great art, JSCUA was conceived when a website owned by the director of Airplane! gave me $2,000 for the right to computer-animate an old column of mine about going to a water-treatment facility in Orange County, California, to drink tap water filtered from sewage. NationalBanana.com intended to sell this to a cable channel, but it turns out that cable channels aren't in the business of supporting a series of avant-garde poop jokes. (See the top 10 Sundance hits of all time...
...track “This Life.” This appearance disappoints and fails to even come within striking distance of previous work like that on “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.” On Springsteen’s softer songs, he continues to tap into the aesthetic of the common American, glorifying the love of everyday people in sympathetic and warmingly familiar terms. This shines through as he sings about a man in love with a supermarket worker in “Queen of the Supermarket.” This song, in collusion with a number...
...candidacy amid a grand-jury investigation. If that selection was partly spurred by a desire to reward an influential campaign endorsement, Obama's second stab at filling the post looks like a nod to his campaign promise of bipartisan governance. On Feb. 3, Obama reached across the aisle to tap Judd Gregg, a three-term GOP Senator from New Hampshire who, if confirmed, would be the third Republican in the Obama Cabinet. But Obama's latest olive branch is also a political calculation. While Gregg wielded significant power as the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, the Commerce Department...