Word: warners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...named, well, Smith. Yet his company, Federal Express Corp., has become a $600 million firm by delivering packages that "absolutely, positively have to be there overnight," as its ads claim. Nolan K. Bushnell, 39, invented Pong, the first video game, in 1972. He then sold his company, Atari, to Warner Communications in 1976 for $28 million. Steven Jobs, 26, the co-founder of five-year-old Apple Computer, practically singlehanded created the personal computer industry. This college dropout is now worth $149 million...
Companies are now trying a number of tactics to stop the pirates. Atari, the leading video-game maker and a subsidiary of Warner Communications, retains 15 lawyers to file copyright protection lawsuits to combat pirates. Last month a three-judge panel in New York upheld a ruling that videogame companies can copyright their products, including the visual and sound effects down to the last zap. Many companies have introduced special coding schemes that are designed to stop copying. The trouble is that computer specialists, who may be only in their teens, can often easily break the protective codes. Says Steven...
...people free from odd compulsions. An otherwise impeccable butler, intolerable to the Warner family because of his ghastly smile, returns as a volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...
Everywhere, Warner casts her spell, literally. Her mother's ritual for boiling an egg becomes just that. In a piece on folk recipes-a pint of warm beer stirred with a hot poker will cure backache, a slab of raw beef will rub away a wart-the reporter edges deliciously close to magic herself. Even the inventory of the purple velvet handbag of Mme. Houdin, ten-year-old Sylvia's French tutor, becomes a litany of talismans to ward off disaster: smelling salts, two thimbles, a photograph of M. Houdin, the number of madame's life-insurance...
...ultimate magic was the act of writing: the incantation of words. In her summary of her childhood she explained: "There was a world of things, in which everything had its name and place, and there was a world of words, in which everything came to life." Sylvia Townsend Warner never outgrew that childhood. All her long life she retained the level innocent stare that sees so much more than just innocence. This strangely sophisticated child taught herself how to describe the ordinary with precision and wonder and a certain elegance, until even an adult could see that absolutely nothing...