Word: presto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...postcard and -- poof! -- you are ready to write E-mail. Drop it in the Out box and -- presto! -- it's as good as sent. Check stock quotes, send faxes, review your phone messages. With this book-size device, Sony has quietly done what Apple's Newton conspicuously failed to do: made a "personal digital assistant" that pleases its boss. The whizzy interface, ironically, was built by folks from the original Macintosh design team...
...concerto highlighted the orchestra's skills, as they played pizzacati remarkably in unison for close to the entire Adagio. Lin's treatment of the cadenza appeared to mention Schumann's Fourth Symphony, though it might have come unconsciously. He and Yoo then led the orchestra jovially through the Presto. The Haydn, though not the flashiest work written for violin and orchestra, benefited immensely from Lin's thoughtful and decorous performance...
...BOTTOM LINE: Take bits from It's a Wonderful Life, All of Me, Topper and Ghost. Presto -- a bad popular movie...
...Harvard got serious, and presto--an 11-8 Crimson victory locked up the treasured berth to the Final Four...
...protective, wifely instincts of, say, Nancy Reagan, but then on top of that she is very smart, and so nothing gets by her, nothing." Hillary even took a hand in making office assignments for the West Wing. "We were looking at this floor plan and, presto, she had a layout it would have taken an industrial engineer weeks to figure. Not everybody was happy, but she got it right." Hillary does not take kindly to detours off the main road when a discussion is under way. Says close friend and former campaign scheduler Susan Thomases: "Hillary is a closer...