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...Japanese have invented the game Othello [Nov. 22]. That's like the Soviets claiming to have invented the electric light bulb...
...gonna fix my face, don't you worry I'll be back." Blue, blue--I believe there's a philosophical inquiry into the nature and the consummated state of bluedness (Check it out at the Grolier bookshop). Anyway, watch spiky disaster-drawing peacock tendrils as the light bulb burns cool-blue bare and listen to "oh daddy, I'm a fool to cry" and ooh daddy you're a fool if the smoke gets in your eyes...
...discovered photography. Rummaging in my father's closet, I found a discarded 9 x 12 cm view camera. With my allowance money, I bought a dozen plates and photographed my sister near the window. I developed the plate in our bathroom by the light of a ruby-red bulb. It was one of the most magical moments of my life. In the dim red light I watched, wide-eyed, a miracle: the gradual appearance of dark outlines on the milky surface of my plate, forming the first photographic image I had taken. I became a kind of photo-amateur, from...
Dyen said Harvard could save a lot of electricity by removing every other light bulb and could save energy from Cambridge by buildings its own power plant...
...forget everything. Once he lashed out at the prosecutors, telling his lawyer: "Don't those bastards know I'm going to jail? I can't keep churning this Watergate crap out. I'm tired of turning my head on and off like a light bulb." Listening to the tapes soothed him. "I could see the meetings in my mind; my senses synchronized, I floated back through time...