Word: couchful
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...represent those applications at all. Instead, they launch different, simple-to-use applications covering four basic media types: video files (even ones you buy over iTunes), still images, song files and DVDs, respectively. The idea is that you can play music or look at pictures while sitting on a couch at the other side of the room, anywhere up to 30 feet away, in fact, as long as you're within sight of the iMac...
...contrast, my most distinct memory of a final club is when I sauntered into one with a couple of girlfriends at 3 a.m. and proceeded to sit on a red leather couch in front of a marble fireplace eating massive pieces of freshly baked carrot cake. The kicker was when a man in a tuxedo approached us and asked in his most proper British accent if we would like anything to drink...
...psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who studies genius, creativity and eccentricity, believes it's more complicated than that. "Ambition is energy and determination," he says. "But it calls for goals too. People with goals but no energy are the ones who wind up sitting on the couch saying 'One day I'm going to build a better mousetrap.' People with energy but no clear goals just dissipate themselves in one desultory project after the next...
...quick look at Jackson’s activities here—Harvard groups, projects, and productions—shows why she hasn’t been hitting the casting couch. Working with City Step, Jackson choreographs dances for children. She also dances with the Expressions Dance Company, and acts and sings with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club...
...child-like upbringing since his brothers and sister were much older—"I was raised by my sister, her mom, and female babysitters. I’ve always been around women, surrounded by women. I’m more comfortable interacting with women." (Whitman, perched on an adjoining couch, adds pointedly: "Strong women.") Part of his ability to sell to the girls comes from understanding how to talk to them. "They don’t want to feel like they’re being played. It’s not genuine then. I don’t want...