Word: compressions
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Tyler pays delighted homage to the growing strength--both in numbers and in ability--of those who compress their thoughts into short, direct sentences that describe elliptical actions and liminal, often deeply saddening moments: in short, the Bleak School...
...encomiums heaped upon Kim Il Sung are, in any language, indecipherable gobbledygook. Korea Today, a monthly propaganda magazine, published this sentence: "His unexcelled prodigious wisdom . . . cyclopaedic knowledge of nature and society, clairvoyant scientific insight with which to perceive clearly the essence of inextricably entangled phenomena and ability to compress aspirations of millions of people in a simple proposition ... are his distinguished qualities with which to conduct ideo-theoretical activities." Moreover, North Korean officials steadfastly assert that the world looks to Pyongyang for inspiration and that the government's paid propaganda advertisements in Western newspapers constitute editorial acclaim...
...which is more than in all the years since John Styth Pemberton whipped up the first batch of Coca-Cola in 1886. Says Richard Armstrong, president of Dr Pepper, which has brought out two new brands since last fall: "It would be unusual for even the computer industry to compress so much activity into so short a time...
...American Heart Association to instruct trainees in saving cardiac arrest victims, is so interactive that it practically cries "Ouch!" The disc is linked to a mannequin equipped with 14 sensors, and it tells the trainee exactly where to push, pound, pinch or pummel. Instructing the trainee how to compress the victim's chest, the videodisc might say, "Find the notch on the sternum," or perhaps, "A little more gently this time." At the course's conclusion, the system gives a complete exam, grades it, and can certify the student in cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
...WORKS because Doig manages to compress meaning into the details of the natural surroundings. Rooted in the soil, always sensitive to weather and view, Doig evokes the Northwest with such an intimate touch that we actually re-experience it. His words and thoughts are religiously down to earth. Nothing can be understood without knowing the land, hugging it, runnings one's fingers over it, as he does at the end when he locates a swan and the initials "JGS" which his "winter brother" had carved in the sandstone at Neah Bay. If he reads Swan's dairy about the place...