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...Skaneateles. She was the first up and last to bed, handshaking her way through county fairs and college campuses, just plain outworking her opponent. And as much as yuppie women may have been skeptical of Hillary's motives, upstate women of a certain age greeted her like Oprah, an avatar of spiritual renewal touching down in Poughkeepsie. They turned out for her, stayed afterward, lined up for autographs. Her first victory lap began upstate in Albany, Rochester and Syracuse...
That kind of service is possible because there can't be many guests to start with. The Oceana has only 63 suites, the Colombe d'Or just 15. "Our guests are people, not numbers," says Kevin Blackbeard, director of sales and marketing at the Oceana. Avatar Kramer, broadcast producer for the San Francisco ad agency Publicis & Hal Riney, always stays there when in L.A., and uses his suite for production meetings. "It's ironic that in a more closed environment than a lot of hotels, you feel a lot more privacy," says Kramer...
...said that "there is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint." Artschwager (whose work was exhibited in the Carpenter Center earlier this year) creates objects, often boxes, with no clear function, and painted images based on commercial sources. LeWitt has been an avatar of the conceptual art movement since the 1960s. His geometric constructions, based on mathematical models, often take their form from instructions which the artist has dictated on paper, leaving their execution as an afterthought. Buren has been operating since the 1960s with a vocabulary of 8.7-cm vertical stripes, exhibited in venues...
...buddy, wherever he or she may be. (And no more annoying collisions with opponent, walls or ball, since all three will be illusions.) In fact, using standard virtual-reality technology, people have already played tennis remotely, Lanier says. But each looked to the other like a cartoon character--an "avatar." Tele-immersion will let you see the agony of defeat on the face of your vanquished foe. A big advance...
...sees. They know much of the Silicon Valley/Wall Street/media complex believes the commodification of online retailing will lay their company to waste. Amazon the Web's golden child, darling of NASDAQ day traders who raise its market cap even faster than the company bleeds money, is also Amazon the avatar of all that may be ephemeral and fraudulent about the dotcom revolution. Now Bezos has named a date one year hence that will be the time they find out whether they're going to make it or not. A chance, after all those 16-hr. workdays, for the company actually...