Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Foster nomination and a new bill on school prayer and choice. He then socialized with a collection of the Republican Party's movers and shakers in New Hampshire. Through it all he kept in constant touch with his headquarters in Virginia and his Washington office by way of a cellular phone...
...ropes and rigging equipment, special optical cameras with lights that can fit into small holes or spaces in debris, listening devices that can detect human heartbeats several feet away. Every so often the order went out for total silence: the chain saws stilled, all two way radios and cellular phones shut off, the helicopters and heavy equipment were sent away. "The idea is to get very quiet, don't even breathe, just drop the devices in and listen," says Gary Morris, deputy chief of the Phoenix fire department. "These devices are very sensitive...
...clear that Fairweather was deeply affected by Cubism as well as Chinese art. "I suppose it all began with Cazanne ... I've been rather like a weathercock," he remarked in one of his few and laconic interviews. Most of his mature paintings share a cellular structure-cubicles of form held together by a gestural calligraphy, sometimes wobbly but often very precise. The colors are muted: grays, sandy browns, black, occasionally lit by a flash of red, as in Glasshouse Mountains, 1958; forms are pressed into a flat dense surface (stamped there, you feel, as by a Chinese seal...
...course, they didn't. Because they don't want to. The dream is more alluring: surely somewhere there has to be someone who knows something. If not, why aren't we in cellular phones like all the other sensible people? This year the popular betting is that there are three such someones, that their names are Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen, and that what passes for a millennium--or, anyway, a damned good special-effects version of it--may be at hand...
...Aleksander's former lover. Even when the connections between characters are not that intimate, they sometimes know one another by sight, because commerce and communications keep shrinking the world. War zones nowadays have area codes, and the vision of a terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point almost surrealistically: his peasant gunmen go about their bloody business clad in Nikes and other American-made sports gear...