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Every Monday evening, like clockwork, they begin their odyssey home to Exit 37B (just completed six years ago) and to their living rooms to watch the news of violence and mayhem in the city they left in spirit long ago. "Those poor people. To have to live there...
...President. He is one of the few in that fraternity who actually met a payroll, and that was 24 years ago. Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, 80, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has been in Congress since 1941. The average conferee has been cashing those beige federal paychecks like clockwork for better than 20 years: no worries about Chapter 11 bankruptcies, layoffs, plant closings, Social Security taxes, insurance costs...
...huge billboard at the town limit warns that DISPLAY OF WEAPONS, FIRING OF BLANK AMMUNITION AND ARRESTS MAY OCCUR. IF CHALLENGED, PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. HAVE A NICE DAY! And true to its admonition, mock bank robberies, kidnapings and drug busts take place like clockwork. Mayor Pledger brags that Hogan's Alley is the most crime-ridden town in the world. Says Pledger: "The next crime wave is usually just around the corner. Fortunately for us, though, we've got a 100% success rate at catching criminals...
...play with such a small cast, the interaction and timing become critical. The choreography of these players, however, was nothing like clockwork--they seemed either to be tripping over each other's lines or waiting for the delayed delivery of a forgotten one. They did not seem to react at all to each other with any genuine passion, largely because their characters were disingenuously played...
Human interest in tiny machines dates back to the clockwork toys of the 16th century. But it was not until this century that making things smaller became a matter of military and economic survival. Spurred by the cold war and the space race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony...