Word: cellularized
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...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...
Within seconds, billion-dollar Pentagon spy satellites can deliver detailed photographs to ground stations. The National Security Agency's supercomputers can sort through intercepted phone calls with lightning speed. Even clandestine agents overseas can have instant access to CIA officials in the U.S. by using cellular phones. But until last year, the White House had to depend on the "pizza truck " for all this intelligence--even during a fast-breaking crisis. And the pizza truck--the agency's nickname for the delivery van bearing secret reports from the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters--often became snarled in downtown Washington traffic...
...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...
...returns to Las Colinas with his soon-to-be third wife, Virginia (Jenni Paredes), a suitably annoying blonde Southern bimbo archetype. Jack has promised to take Virginia to the cotillion that evening and to announce their engagement at a luncheon the next day. His highpowered corporate boss, a forceful cellular presence, seems to have other plans...