Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexual affair with a Member of Parliament, who himself slept with the writer's wife. Both politician and wife are now dead, he of syphilis and she of the results of crawling into the bottom of an elevator shaft and waiting for someone to press the down button. The antihero, left alone with his nausea, distracts himself by recreating the career of a Mohawk Indian saint named Catherine Tekakwitha. "Catherine Tekakwitha," he maunders, "who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin? Can I love you in my own way? I am better...
...reign of terror. He responds to an attempted assassination by blowing up a city of 600,000. Weary of ruling, he orders an entire island evacuated and a colossal pleasure palace built there, in which the walls spout frosted-drink faucets, and his bed, at the flick of a button, will glide off to the bathroom...
Commercial stations solve this problem by using what are called tape cartridges. Tape cartridges have all the spots needed on them. The DJ merely inserts the cartridge he wants, and pushes a button when he is ready for it. He also has a high speed record changer, to cut down the dead air time between records. With a tape cartridge system and high speed changers, there is no need for a separate controlman--the DJ does the whole show himself...
...James Bond drove in Goldfinger. Tooling around the playgrounds, Andrew can be in constant contact by two-way radio with headquarters at either Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace. There is also a radar warning system with a three-mile radius, a protective bulletproof shield, and the punch of a button can send up a giant smoke screen or fire streams of water from the two rear reflectors. So cool it, nanny...
...Bell companies are now declaring statewide "wars on obscene calls." Their most effective weapon is an electronic device known as "called-party holding," which the telephone company hooks up free. It consists of a small signal box that is linked to the nearest central office. By simply pushing the button on the box, the victim signals the central office, which immediately locks the circuit. Even if the caller hangs up, the circuit remains open and the telephone company can begin tracing the call...