Word: commonality
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...principal cartoonist and cover artist. The other literary forms of the time included richly inventive graffiti ("Henry VII Is Insatiable") and the bulletin-board memos of Elliot Perkins, the with master of Lowell House, who wrote with a graceful elegance that suggested The New Yorker and the Book of Common Prayer rolled into...
...Room 1002 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Arlington, Va., and Suite 521 at the Regency Hotel in New York have something in common besides king-size beds and minibars: notoriety for two of the most respected names in sports broadcasting. Last Thursday, at a packed news conference in yet another hotel, the Sheraton New York, Albert said, "I would like to reassert my innocence and reiterate that all the charges against me are false." He then vowed to continue working the N.B.A. play-offs for NBC. In attendance were his four children, one of whom is also a sportscaster...
...question inevitably follows: Has IBM created intelligence? Unfortunately, this question is impossible to answer without a common understanding of what intelligence is. As a friend of mine put it, "the only thing that everybody agrees on is that the IQ test does not measure...
...contempt, writes TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel. In the movies (?Play Misty for Me,? ?Fatal Attraction?) they are more often seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this quite common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy. But that?s precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer Robert Gordon have up and tried in ?Addicted to Love,? and a fine -- but not entirely uninteresting -- mess they have on their hands. It offers...
...index of social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized...