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...residents of Los Angeles spoke of both terror and gratitude. Unlike other disasters of more nameless suffering, each death could be counted and mourned. A 20-year-old man died after the power failure cut off his hospital respirator. Another died in a fall from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel. Then again, what if it had come three hours later? What if it had not been a holiday...
Buttressing the desktop are dozens of subsidiary metaphors. Overlapping windows let users peer into different areas within the computer without having to stop what they are doing. Pull-down menus drop like window shades from the top of the screen, eliminating the need to look up commands in a manual. Elevator bars scroll long documents up and down; buttons and toggle switches pop up when there is a decision to be made...
...special honor, but here we pretty much throw it out the window. (This column, for instance, will only be read by one pair of eyes besides mine before it gets to you.) We write to fill space, like I'm doing right now. We toss in irreverent, shocking and provacative statements like...
...look at me very often but either looked down as he was talking or lifted his eyes above my head to look out the window...
Brandon Tartikoff watches from a cramped seat against the window. Wearing ! Reeboks, an open sport shirt and a Boris-and-Natasha wristwatch, he is an easygoing but focused presence. After a few rehearsals of the scene, he huddles quietly with director Hannah Hempstead. For the next run-through, the husband picks up the pastry tray without a smile and drops it abruptly in front of his wife...