Word: tape
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There was, in truth, plenty to be scared about. 3M (1995 sales: $13.4 billion) has long been the Ma Bell of Minnesota companies--a revered and maternalistic giant that gave the world Scotch tape and Post-It notes, where jobs for life are still a norm. The spin-off, called Imation, a $2.3 billion business that became an independent, publicly traded company last month, offered no such security. Only 3 of 4 people who worked for the new company's divisions when they were part of 3M made the move to the Imation payroll. Gone were two management layers, five...
...women, reminiscent of Beckett's Dublin youth, chatter on about postnuclear sunlight (Happy Days) or adulterous affairs (Play)--what's Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic. So is the search for meaning. So too, perhaps, is writing about hopelessness...
...life since age 5, when she wore a slogan on her skirt that read I'M FOR MY DADDY, ARE YOU? And yet in this campaign, she is so protected by campaign handlers that she is like an unaccompanied minor on an airplane. As an aide turns on a tape recorder and takes notes, Robin repeats well-worn anecdotes. How her Dad taught her to drive in a Ford Falcon. How she wrote a note to her father asking to get her ears pierced, with boxes drawn for his yes or no answer--to which he added a box marked...
...coming. Nearly 8,000 people in 3 1/2 months signed up for half-hour sessions on the computers. So many folks wait for the library doors to open each morning--children as young as two, adults older than Bill Gates' parents--that the staff had to put down green tape on the floor to mark off a place to line up for a turn on one of the dozen Pentium-chip computers in the Jell-O-blue reading room...
Based on the book Gotti: Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, as well as on FBI surveillance-tape transcripts and press accounts, Gotti the movie gives us the former Gambino crime-family boss as a Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "You got a worldwide crime syndicate now," the imprisoned don, played by Armand Assante, bemoans at the end of the film. "There...