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...touch-tone, trim-line phone is a wall phone designed with push button dialing. Since the phone is installed on the wall instead of with a long cord, it will make it more difficult for students to share private phones, thus making the phones even more costly...
...those "male-chauvinist-female-oppressors" had a mother, right? And she probably showed him just how it is done, right? As every freshman sociology major knows, mothers bear the lion's share of their children's "role identification." So, moms of the world, loosen the umbilical cord! You have nothing to lose but your kitchen privileges...
Beyond that, CATV could change the country's way of life. Its copper coaxial cables, though larger than telephone cord, have 1,000 times the communications capacity. Washington willing, the U.S. could be transformed into what some call "the wired nation." Within ten years, CATV's two-way conduits could provide set-side shopping and banking, dial-a-movie service, a burglar and fire watch, and facsimile print-outs of newspapers or even library books...
...Maestro's account, his birth in Catalonia on Dec. 29, 1876, was not auspicious. "The umbilical cord twisted around my neck," he writes. "My face was black, and I nearly choked to death." At the age of four, he began studying the piano with his father, the church organist in Vendrell. At twelve, he was already a virtuoso cello player and was on his way to revolutionizing cello technique. "There was something very awkward and unnatural in playing with a stiff arm and with one's elbows close to one's sides," he explains...
...Swiss Alps.) In such circumstances, nature does not offer Gerald the salvation it provided Birken; the landscape into which Gerald wanders is barren and frigid. He collapses, curls up like a tiny fetus dwarfed by a field of grayish white, his darker footsteps trailing offscreen like an endless umbilical cord. The actual physical setting of Gerald's death is overshadowed by its implications of loneliness and sterility. Compared to the cluttered literalness of most of the film, these few, tentative steps toward approaching a sparser, more abstract method of story-telling are much more suggestive of the grandeur of Lawrence...