Word: connectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the off chance that your call somehow avoids the insidious traps of the "Call Waiting" conspiracy, when you are finally connected to the other line you will probably just ask them if they can call back later. This is the same as a busy signal--but with one difference...
The surfeit arises from the sheer size of the show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more...
The sheer quantity of stuff is also connected to a pervasive sense of cultural loss, for large as this show is, it is the merest fragment of the vanished whole it attempts to describe. No people in the history of Europe turned on their own traditional art with a more...
Maybe for Salesman, but Timebends is often muddled, even mawkish. In the final passage, Miller describes eyeing coyotes warily eyeing him on his Connecticut spread and sententiously proclaims, "We are all connected, watching one another. Even the trees." Still, if Miller the autobiographer refuses to offer shapely stories and easy...
The repairman from New York's Long Island Lighting Co. was trying to fix a faulty home-heating system when he found a mysterious oily sludge in the natural-gas pipe connected to the house. LILCO soon learned that the substance contained dangerous concentrations of PCBs, a class of highly...