Word: toileting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Case in point: in one memorable scene, Peoples has a meeting while sitting on the toilet with all the abandon of a two-year-old. The positioning was Wright's inspired idea, though it was not his idea to have a rude noise on the soundtrack while he's sitting there. "When I saw it, it got a big laugh," he says, "and that's not what the scene's about...
Jovon, though smart, clever and exceedingly charming when explaining how he was framed for the wet-toilet-paper fight in the bathroom, didn't seem so psyched on Stanford despite our admittedly exaggerated description of seminars on video games. And the instrument thing, partly owing to some oboe trash talking on my part, wasn't going anywhere. There were nights when I dreamed of switching him with Elian, but that may have been more about my freakish need for media attention...
Need more? There are no movies made for people your age, the music on the radio is dreadful, television programmers behave as if you don't exist. In an astonishing merger of boomer aging with boomer self-involvement, Matsushita Electric has built a prototype smart toilet with built-in microsensors that can run an automatic, daily chemical analysis of the user's urine. Stock-market analysts are growing bullish on companies that build nursing homes or manufacture laxatives...
...fellow students don't always do the most intelligent things, but they are all intelligent. Everyone has something interesting to say. People are excited by ideas. Dissent and disagreement are welcome. And Harvard has taken care of me: housing, food, social events, health services, advice, my first job, even toilet paper--I credit Harvard with putting all of these at my fingertips...
...world's best mobile phones--and that, yes, people like them, buying more Nokias than Motorolas or Ericssons (Nos. 2 and 3 in the market, respectively). Yet after listening to Ollila, 49, tell of his Finnish firm's transformation from a money-losing industrial conglomerate better known for toilet paper and tires into a $20 billion global telecom powerhouse, what sticks with you is his charming knack for understatement. "We've done pretty well," Ollila says, kicking back in his chair inside Nokia's Espoo headquarters, a modern construct of glass and steel towering over the Gulf of Finland...