Was I foolish to have hurled so many screenwriting manuals away?
Twenty-four years on, you'll still see The Manual tucked away on the occasional music executive's bookshelf.
In a rare step, doctors on a panel revising psychiatry's influential diagnostic manual have backed away from two controversial proposals that would have expanded the number of people identified as having psychotic or depressive disorders.
Sudo is a bot that manages your CRM, taking all of the pain of manual data entry away from the sales rep.
"When I wrote Carrie and Salem's Lot, I was one step away from manual labour".
But so did a growing and intensifying economic shift in Britain, away from manual labour to intellectual labour.
Fife hopes that by using handheld devices with increased functionality, it will improve information management, as it will be moving away from manual data input to using an automated real time system.
Likewise, that move away from manual labour resulted in fewer men having jobs that made huge physical demands on them, demands that made it seem sensible that they should be untroubled by any expectation of domestic contribution.
The film is both an engaging period piece, because it views the grim news from the Fleet Street office of the Daily Express (where the hacks bash away at manual typewriters), and topical because it anticipates global warming.
As we move further away from manual labour-based industries being a reality (steelworks, shipbuilding, coal mining) in favour of office-based ones, there is temporal distance and those clothes become items not of the everyday but of idealisation and, in turn, high fashion.
