Word: blink
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Castellanos's commercial begins as a fairly civil dismemberment of Al Gore's prescription plan and degenerates into what appears to be an astonishing sneak attack. During the last few seconds, in literally the blink of an eye, the word "RATS" appears in bold capital letters superimposed over the phrase "Bureaucrats Decide." The 30-second blurb, which has been running in 33 markets since August, was not pulled, per se, but "was coming out of rotation anyway," according to the Bush campaign...
...wife recites Emma Lazarus' poem in its entirety, an unexpected feat that is rather moving. The hostess conducts an intense internal seance, diving deep, canvassing her unconscious. With a blink of triumph, she fetches up the sculptor's name: "Bartholdi...
...already know from playing games, it's that our brains eagerly adapt our physical responses to the onscreen action. Next time your six-year-old plays Pokemon on his Game Boy or your teenagers blast away at their pals on Quake, watch what happens to their breathing and blink rate. One steadily increases; the other drops away to almost nothing. Their bodies are getting ready to fight...
...always online in her home office. (Are we a wired couple? Yes, we are.) "NOW WHAT?" she shot back. I told her to just click on the address and see. She did, and went to the SpotLife site--where she observed me sitting at my desk. Eating a doughnut. Blink. "SO?" she I.M.'d me. O.K., there was something underwhelming about the Webcam experience. Frankly, it was more interesting to peek into the windows of the hundreds of other people who were "live" on SpotLife. I especially liked the Webcast of the two basset hounds. Now that's entertainment...
...clear tour de force of the exhibit is the surprisingly complete array of work by Watts, including early drawings and paintings, mail-order newsletters and found objects. Just as Kaprow's early paintings revealed abstract expressionist beginnings, so too do Watts's "Blink" and "Monhegan" drawings...